ftpput script: perl ?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 12:42:59AM +0300, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> 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.

Using ascii mode when ftp server is unix and ftp client in DOS will
corrupt your files as it does CR/LF conversions in ascii mode.  At least
some clients do.

> As to telnet, you can control a ftp session using a telnet client
> connecting to port 21 on the remote machine, and netcopy. It's very easy.
> telnet xxx, user, pass, pasv (this tells you the port), retr <file>, and
> then netcopy the data (up or down), like nc there port </dev/null
> >file.here . nc is in the netcopy package.

Still not my idea of a nice simple protocol.

And there is still active/passive mode.

Lennart Sorensen
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