12-16-2011
FTP is entirely predictable. It is just very difficult to write good script to cover every eventuality (including a ftp transfer taking too long). The same issues apply to "scp" to a certain extent.
The main use for FTP nowadays is for file transfers to/from Microsoft platforms when it is not possible or economical to configure a better method. Getting Microsoft FTP working is itself hard work.
Anyway the O/P in this thread was clearly trying to get data from a web server.
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authen::simple::ftp
Authen::Simple::FTP(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Authen::Simple::FTP(3pm)
NAME
Authen::Simple::FTP - Simple FTP authentication
SYNOPSIS
use Authen::Simple::FTP;
my $ftp = Authen::Simple::FTP->new(
host => 'ftp.company.com'
);
if ( $ftp->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
# successfull authentication
}
# or as a mod_perl Authen handler
PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
PerlModule Authen::Simple::FTP
PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleFTP_host "ftp.company.com"
<Location /protected>
PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::FTP
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Protected Area"
Require valid-user
</Location>
DESCRIPTION
Authenticate against a FTP service.
METHODS
* new
This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid:
* host Connection host, can be a hostname or IP number. Defaults to "localhost".
host => 'ftp.company.com'
host => '10.0.0.1'
* port Connection port, default to 21.
port => 21
* timeout
Connection timeout, defaults to 60.
timeout => 60
* log Any object that supports "debug", "info", "error" and "warn".
log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::FTP')
* authenticate( $username, $password )
Returns true on success and false on failure.
SEE ALSO
Authen::Simple.
Net::FTP.
AUTHOR
Christian Hansen "ch@ngmedia.com"
COPYRIGHT
This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.8.8 2008-03-01 Authen::Simple::FTP(3pm)