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by **Kiran G. Ja** » Fri, 06 Jan 1995 23:12:37

Hello netters,
Is there any way of doing ftp from within a C program without using
a system call and execing a shell script out of it??

Thanks,
--Kiran

by **Patrick Horg** » Sun, 08 Jan 1995 10:08:12

Of course, you can open a socket connection to the site's ftp port and speak
ftp protocol yourself. You could also get Cern's libwww which contains routines
to do this.

Patrick
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by **Alan B. Evan** » Wed, 11 Jan 1995 01:31:42

> Of course, you can open a socket connection to the site's ftp port and speak
> ftp protocol yourself. You could also get Cern's libwww which contains routines
> to do this.

> Patrick

You could also open a pipe using popen to ftp.

--alan

by **Larry Emme** » Wed, 11 Jan 1995 02:21:58

>> Of course, you can open a socket connection to the site's ftp port and speak
>> ftp protocol yourself. You could also get Cern's libwww which contains routines
>> to do this.

>> Patrick

>You could also open a pipe using popen to ftp.

>--alan

The xarchie package contains source code that does this. It even
has a compiler flag you can set to generate a command line ftpget-
type command. That is 'ftpget -bin hostname pathname' or something
like that grabs the file for you.

I never quite managed to get this to work the way I wanted it to,
but I didn't play with it for very long either.

I think the last version I looked at even had notes about generalizing
the ftp code into an ftp API. Of course all details above are from
memory so you might want to check me on them before getting your hopes
up too high.

Regards,

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by **Stephen Reppuc** » Wed, 11 Jan 1995 21:46:17

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>>> |> Hello netters,
>>> |> Is there any way of doing ftp from within a C program without using
>>> |> a system call and execing a shell script out of it??
>>> Of course, you can open a socket connection to the site's ftp port and speak
>>> ftp protocol yourself. You could also get Cern's libwww which contains routines
>>> to do this.
>The xarchie package contains source code that does this. It even
>has a compiler flag you can set to generate a command line ftpget-
>type command. That is 'ftpget -bin hostname pathname' or something
>like that grabs the file for you.

>I think the last version I looked at even had notes about generalizing
>the ftp code into an ftp API. Of course all details above are from
>memory so you might want to check me on them before getting your hopes
>up too high.

I needed the same type of thing about a year ago. I got a copy
of something called 'libftp', written by Oleg Orel, but it wasn't quite
tight enough for my taste, so I wrote my own library to provide this
API. It's not a complete implementation, but enough to do the basic
file transfer operations (STOR, RETR, STAT, RN{FR,TO}, etc.)

I had email'ed a copy of my work to a professor at DePaul University
who was supposedly going to do some cleanup on it to allow it to be
placed into the GNU project, but it's been over four months since I've
heard from him, so I'm assuming that he decided not to do this.

If there's enough call for it, (and someone that wants to ante up to
do the release work :^)) I'd be happy to work with someone to make this
library publicly available.

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