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Addressing the “|” separator problem for virtual FTP Sites (FTP 7.5).
FTP 7.0 introduced support for virtual host names as documented in the article http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/320/using-ftp-virtual-host-names/. Because of variety of compatibility challenges, the decision was made to use the pipe sign “|” as a separator between the virtual host name and the actual account name. To connect to an ftp site configured with virtual host name such as ftp.contoso.com, that was sharing port 21 with some other site, one would need to type ftp.contoso.com|ftpuser to log on successfully.
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Little known features of FTP 7.0 and FTP 7.5 (Part 1).
FTP 7 includes few features that are not commonly known or used. One of them is a support for block mode transfers.