whna@cgch.UUCP (Heinz Naef) (01/06/88)
Did anyone develop a (limited) FTP client, implemented as a C programming
library, usable from within application programs to allow them to request
standard FTP servers in the network to send or receive a file?
Do any standard semantics exist for such an application programming interface?
Any comments are welcome.
Regards,
Heinz Naef, c/o CIBA-GEIGY AG, R-1032.5.62, P.O.Box, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
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fax: (+41) 61 36 43 54 (Attn: H.Naef, R-1032.5.62)dsg@mitre-bedford.arpa (Dave Goldberg) (01/08/88)
If such a library exists, I'd like to hear about it. What I've done to work around the lack of same is to build a file with ftp commands in it and then use system(3) to execute ftp with input redirected from the file. To avoid the password hassle, the ftp at our site provides the facility to have a file called .netrc in the home directory. This file is searched for user names and passwords to be used on the remote system. It isn't mentioned in our ftp man page, so I can't be sure if it is a standard though. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Goldberg ARPA: dsg@mitre-bedford.arpa The Mitre Corporation UUCP: linus!mbunix!dsg MS B015 Bedford, MA 01730 617-271-2460
matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Maxwell House Daemon) (01/09/88)
In article <11180@brl-adm.ARPA> dsg@mitre-bedford.arpa (Dave Goldberg) writes:
) [The ~/.netrc file] isn't mentioned in
) our ftp man page, so I can't be sure if it is a standard though.
It must be standard. If it were a local addition, somebody would
have had the sense to add it to the man page.
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Crawford of Chicago {astrovax,ihnp4}!oddjob!mattlm@arizona.edu (Larry McVoy) (01/16/88)
In article <571@cgcha.cgch.UUCP> whna@cgch.UUCP (Heinz Naef) writes: >Did anyone develop a (limited) FTP client, implemented as a C programming >library, usable from within application programs to allow them to request >standard FTP servers in the network to send or receive a file? > How about /* * send a file via ftp * * Bugs - no error checking/handling * - password is in cleartext */ send(host, user, passwd, file) char* host; char* user; char* passwd; char* file; { FILE* ftp; ftp = popen("ftp", "w"); fprintf(ftp, "open %s\n", host); fprintf(ftp, "%s\n", user); fprintf(ftp, "%s\n", passwd); fprintf(ftp, "put %s\n", file); pclose(ftp); }