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Creating an FTP Drop Site

This article walks you through creating an FTP site that users can anonymously upload files to, but can't list or retrieve any files that have been uploaded. The article also discusses uses for such sites in a corporate environment. FTP is one of the oldest Internet protocols and still one of the most useful. In olden days, businesses would transfer information by couriers on horseback carrying leather pouches filled with documents. Now most business documents are electronic and are sent over the Internet instead, and while email is often a good way of doing this, some electronic documents are unsuitable for email such as documents too large to serve as attachments or documents that must be submitted anonymously such as surveys. As a result, many businesses still find need for running FTP servers for uploading and downloading large files.

One interesting scenario is when you want customers, clients or business partners to be able to upload files anonymously to your server but not be able to see or download files that others may have uploaded. Such a scenario is often called a ?drop box? because it operates like those physical boxes with slots on top that customers can use to fill out satisfaction surveys and drop them in as they leave your store. It?s fairly straightforward to set up such an environment using the FTP service component of Internet Information Services (IIS), and that?s what this article is about. Creating an FTP Drop Site

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