[Gambas-user] Problems working with FTPClient

[Tobias Boege]

Hi,

I have huge trouble working with the FTPClient.Exec() method (sanely) when
it comes to data transfer.

My goal is to get the directory contents of the root directory, for example.
This is accomplished using the LIST command which is not implemented in
FTPClient, so one must use Exec(). The problem is that this command needs a
passive mode data channel...

AFAICS, this _cannot_ be done with FTPClient alone as there is no way to
tell it to open up a new socket to read from the server's passive socket and
raise the Read event (or a PassiveRead event to keep the point of the
passive connection).

There should, IMHO, at least be something like a bPassive argument to
FTPClient.Exec() or so to make the FTPClient aware of the fact that we want
to get data in passive mode. I don't know how hard this could be with curl
but there must be something like that already in the Get() method...

I experimented a good hour with two plain sockets but didn't come to a
satisfying result. Or am I totally blind and don't see the right way? Has
anyone had experience with something like that already?

Of course, there is still the "ftp" program which I'm going to use now. I
just wanted to point this issue out.

Regards,
Tobi