For uploading files to a website I am using FileZilla, a well known programm for making fast connections to various sites. Last week, a usual day, I wanted to upload a content management system en made a connection to the website, normally a simple job and the most easy part in the creation of a new part of the internet.

While it wasn't even friday the thirteenth, this job had a lot more struggles in mind than normally. After the job was done, I looked at the website and noticed a lot of pictures were gone and CSS stylesheets didn't work (or partial).

I contacted the hostingprovider to have a chat and see if they had a solution to this problem. They saw that the original file was 1 byte bigger than the file on the webserver. There must be a problem during the transportation.

Finally I found an incorrect option in FileZilla, the type of transportation was ASCII and with that setting al the files are threated as ASCII files and that's often not a problem, this time it was....

In FileZilla there is an option to set the type of transfer to ASCII, Binairy or Automatic. As a precept you can set this option to Binairy, when this causes troubles, you can set it to automatic and if even that won't work, you use ASCII.

I have no idea how the option on my workstation is set as ASCII, and, to tell you the truth, I don't mind. My experience in FileZilla has grown and... it works again !