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Anonymous FTP Access
FTP Access to Online Volumes
*Note: Most modern web browsers no longer
support FTP, so an FTP client application or
command line will need to be used to
download files via FTP.
FTP access to any Geosciences Node data set
can be achieved by substituting "FTP:" for
"HTTPS:" in the data set's URL.
For
example, from the
LCROSS web page, clicking the link to
CLIO Calibrated Data gets you to this
location:
https://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/lunar/ear-l-mmto_clio-3-cdr-lcross-v1/lcrcli_1xxx/
The FTP path to these files:
ftp://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/lunar/ear-l-mmto_clio-3-cdr-lcross-v1/lcrcli_1xxx/
You may verify that the files you have
downloaded are intact by comparing their
checksums with the checksums of the files on
the server. You'll find a checksum file in
the root directory of each archive.
Read more about
checksums here.
Our FTP server supports plain FTP, anonymous
access through port 21, which is the default
port used by most FTP services.
An advantage of using FTP is that you can transfer multiple
files at once, if you are using an FTP program that allows this. There are
several FTP clients available for free that do this.
SmartFTP and
FileZilla are two such
programs that we have used with success.
If you use SmartFTP, you will need to change a few settings so
that it will work properly with our FTP server. On the menu bar, go to
Tools->Settings, then click on the Advanced tab and uncheck the boxes for Show
Hidden Files, Force Long Format, and Resolve Links. This prevents SmartFTP
from sending unnecessary messages that our server cannot understand. If
you are behind a firewall, you may also need to go into the Settings window,
click on the Connection tab and ensure that the "Use Passive Mode" box is
checked. We have noticed that SmartFTP is not able to resume interrupted
downloads when used with certain Internet Service Providers such as Earthlink.
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