A song for the lovers

Michele Bersani showed a very simple example of FTP uploader using a third party library (in .NET 1.1 you don’t have any FTP support at all) and hence I wrote a Python version.

Here is his script: [code lang="java"] using System; using System.IO; using EnterpriseDT.Net.Ftp;

namespace SimpleFTP {
class Simple { [STAThread] static void Main(string[] args) { try { FTPClient ftp = new FTPClient(); // Host ftp.RemoteHost = "Host"; // Connect ftp.Connect(); // Login ftp.Login("User", "Password"); // Set up connect and transfer modes ftp.ConnectMode = FTPConnectMode.ACTIVE; ftp.TransferType = FTPTransferType.ASCII; // Put file to remote server ftp.Put("local_file", "remote_file"); // Close connection ftp.Quit(); } catch (Exception e) { Console.WriteLine(e.Message); } Console.ReadLine(); } } } [/code]

and this is mine (1 to 1 example, don’t bother with proper error handling):

[code lang="python"] import os from ftplib import FTP

try: # login to the remote host ftp_client = FTP("host") ftp_client.login("username", "password")

# change dir
ftp_client.cwd("remotepath")

# open the local file in ASCII mode
f = open("localfile", "r")

# upload file in lines mode
ftp_client.storlines('STOR %s' % os.path.basename("localfile"), f)
f.close()

# disconnect
ftp_client.quit()

except e: print e [/code]

In .NET 2.0 (finally) they put some FTP support in: System.Net.FtpWebRequest