TYPE FTP command

10/30/2018 10:29 AM

10/30/2018 10:29 AM

This article provides information on Representation Type (TYPE) FTP command. 

The TYPE command is issued to inform the server of the type of data that is being transferred by the client. Most modern Windows FTP clients deal only with type A (ASCII) and type I (image/binary).

Serv-U Managed File Transfer & Serv-U FTP Server

Text data is usually transferred as type ASCII so that the server knows to convert the data according to its local storage specifications (relevant when transferring across platforms such as from a Windows client to a Linux server or vice versa). Auto-ASCII is a commonly supported FTP client feature that automatically manages the changing of the representation type based upon the extension of the file the client is transferring.

Common responses 

• 200 FTP response code
• 421 FTP response code
• 500 FTP response code, 501 FTP response code, 504 FTP response code, 530 FTP response code