FTP adapter UN-throttling
Latly I encantered an issue with the FTP adapter in BizTalk Server 2006 R2 on 64 bit platform (the issue in not the platform).
I configured a send port using the adapter to transmit a file to a remote ftp server.
As described at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/898106, the FTP adapter throttling is keeping the connection to the server open,
gaining the connection reusability.
That's greate! BUT! what about some ftp servers that do not support persistant connections (or the organization security policies don't permit it).
Well, we didn't find any working solution for that, although there are some sagestions about registry entries.
We are currently running with a walkaround of setting the the "after put" value to "QUIT". This terminates the connection, from the server point of view,
but couses abnormal behavior from the adapter side, generating transmission error.
As I counting on the ACK message of the delivery, the walkaround is note answering all my needs. :(
I hope to post an happy ending for this one.
== Update 09/07/2008
I had some sessions about the issue with internal Microsoft stuff and they told me the following:
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This issue is well known and recorded as a bug.
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There is no hotfix for that issue at the moment and maybe avalible in future release.
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Using dynamic ports could be a walkaround.
Hope this helped anyone.