[comp.protocols.tcp-ip] Application Programming Interface for FTP

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,
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ron@TOPAZ.RUTGERS.EDU (Ron Natalie) (01/08/88)

Yes, I have such a thing (I think), I'll mail it to you under a separate
letter when I dig it out.

-Ron

JBVB@AI.AI.MIT.EDU ("James B. VanBokkelen") (01/09/88)

FTP Software's PC/TCP Developer's Kit (V2.0) has such an interface.  I didn't
do it, but I'm not now aware of any others, or any standard to follow.  There
are a dozen or more functions you can call, like ftp_stor() and so forth.

jbvb

lm@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);
}