ftpput script: perl ?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Peter L. Peres wrote:

>
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:28:17PM +0300, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> > > The tclsh program I wrote already speaks the 'dreadful ftp protocol',
> > > which btw, imho, is less dreadful than other abominations, such as smtp
> > > and pop3, and the point is of course to learn how it's done properly.
> >
> > SMTP uses a single port, speaks plain simple language that I can do over
> > telnet.  Even pop3 I can do manually via telnet if I want to (sometimes
> > I do).
> >
> > ftp has active and passive mode, binary and ascii, multiple ports, and
> > other mess.  What a hassle.  Bad protocol design.
>
> The binary is almost never needed although applications set binary before
> starting transfer. The ftp protocol clearly specifies the default transfer
> protocol to be 8 bit clean ascii, as in, binary (in the present sense of
> the word). And binary in the sense of the ftp rfc's isn't what you'd think
> at all. It dates back to 36 bit pdp and vax abominations and such. In
> fact, unless you are talking to a mainframe from the previous century that
> cannot help itself you probably do not want to set binary at all I think.

   I always use binary. I've seen too many transfers screwed up by
   using ascii mode.

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