Altova FlowForce Server 2025 Advanced Edition

FTP Server

string

Mandatory parameter. Address of a remote FTP server, as a URL or IP address.

Port

number

Optional parameter. The port number used to connect to the FTP server. The default value is 21.

Directory on host

string

Optional parameter. The name of a directory on the remote FTP server from which you want to retrieve (download) a file.

Login credentials

credential

Optional parameter. The username and password of the FTP account. For details, see Credentials. Skip this parameter if the FTP server does not require credentials.

Use passive mode

boolean

Optional parameter. Use the passive mode if connection problems occur (e.g., if routers or firewalls are set up to prevent active connections). The default value is true.

Use SSL/TLS encryption

string

Optional parameter that specifies whether SSL/TLS encryption should be used. The default value is No. To transfer information, FTP uses a command channel and a data channel. If the FTP server supports explicit encryption, you can set this parameter to one of the values below:

•Explicit with encrypted command channel (least secure)

•Explicit with encrypted command and data channel

•Explicit with encrypted command and data channel and shared TLS session (most secure)

If you set any of the options above, the validation of the server certificate will depend on the value of the Verify server certificate parameter. Implicit encryption is deprecated and not supported in FlowForce.

Also note that existing jobs that used the option Explicit with encrypted command and data channel before 2025 Release 2 will switch automatically to the more secure option Explicit with encrypted command and data channel and shared TLS session instead. If the more secure option does not work for some reason, change the option manually to Explicit with encrypted command and data channel.

Verify server certificate

string

Optional parameter. Specifies how FlowForce should verify the FTP server's certificate. The following options are available:

•No verification: Accepts any FTP server certificate.

•Verify against system certificate store (default value): On Windows, FlowForce Server uses the certificate store of the user account running the job and the system store to verify the certificate signature. On Linux, FlowForce Server uses the system certificate store, usually located in /usr/lib/ssl/cert.pem and /usr/lib/ssl/certs, or the path to which the SSL_CERT_FILE and SSL_CERT_DIR environment variables point.

•Verify against selected server certificate: FlowForce compares the FTP server's certificate with the one specified in the Server Certificate parameter.

This parameter requires a server certificate and a secure connection. If a secure connection cannot be established, the FTP function will fail.

Server certificate

certificate

Optional parameter. Specifies the path to a FlowForce certificate. If you select Verify against selected server certificate in the Verify server certificate parameter, the FlowForce certificate will be verified against the FTP server certificate. If you select No verification or Verify against system certificate store in the Verify server certificate parameter, the Server certificate parameter value will be ignored.

Source file

string

Mandatory parameter that indicates the name of a file you want to download from the FTP server. If you use a relative path, it will be resolved against the path specified in the Directory on host parameter. If you use an absolute path, the path in Directory on host will be ignored.

Target file

string

Mandatory parameter that indicates the name of the file downloaded from the FTP server. If you use a relative path, it will be resolved against the path specified in the Working directory parameter. If you use an absolute path, the path in Working directory will be ignored.

Overwrite target

boolean

Optional parameter. Set this parameter to true if you want to overwrite destination files with the same names. The default value is false.

Abort on error

boolean

Optional parameter. This parameter determines the outcome of a job in which an error has occurred. If the Abort on error parameter is true, job execution will be terminated. If the Abort on error parameter is false, FlowForce Server will ignore errors and continue job execution. The default value is true.

Working directory

string

Optional parameter. Specifies the local working directory where the file downloaded from the FTP server will be stored.

Account

string

Optional parameter. The FTP account name of the user that has access to the files on the remote server.