Timeout in FTP Operations

[Brian Eckenrod <beckenrod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Apologies if this is in the archives,
I tried to get to them today, but the site seems to be down.

We are using the latest beta version
of the API to do some file transfers.  We are using the timeout parameter
on the FTP connection to trap if the connection is never made and that
works well.  What seems to be missing or that I am overlooking is
a timeout on the file transfer portions of the API.  We've had a receive
of a file hang a few times for no obvious reason and the API never times
out or errors, the job just seems to sit there until someone notices it.

Is there something I am missing or something
I could do to utilize a timeout in the file transfer aspects of the API
or perhaps across the entire API on all operations so that if any of them
take beyond x minutes they fail and I can trap the error and react to it.

Thanks in advance for any help / insight.

Brian