Re: CURL vs FTP
Re: CURL vs FTP
- Subject: Re: CURL vs FTP
- From: Errol Sayre <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:02:02 -0500
cURL is a multi-protocol download client... think Adium for file
transfers. It can seemlessly handle ftp connections and in the end
usually makes them easier than using the command line ftp program.
The nice part is, you can use cURL and not have to change anything if
the URL you need to access changes to another supported protocol.
cURL does not provide any sort of interactive shell on the server.
Accordingly, if you need to connect to an FTP server and check the
contents of a directory before performing your action, you'll need to
use another program. Mac OS X has the standard ftp command built-in.
There are better CLI ftp programs available such as ncftp that
provide a lot of nice features that cURL provides, such as download
resumes. However, since you are making an AppleScript, however, you
can use any CLI or AppleScriptable app that understands ftp that you
want. I'd recommend Transmit if you don't already own it.
The point is, their ftp server isn't going to care how you connect,
as long as your using the file transfer protocol. It's probably just
a misunderstanding of what cURL does.
Errol
On Jun 17, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Bruce Robertson wrote:
I am dealing with a client whose web host company insists that we
use FTP
not CURL, because he insists that he only supports FTP.
Does this make sense? Isn't CURL just a particular way of
controlling FTP?
My current CURL script uses Dan Shockley's simple FTP upload script
starting
like this:
simpleFtpUpload("ftp://somewhere.com/newdata/";, theFile, user,
password)
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