FTP client C source code

[EBG]

Probably a stupid question but does anyone know of a *free* FTP client
library implemented in C, complete with source code? I've looked on the
web and as expected are 1000's of offerings, however couldn't find
anything with sources in C and is free. Target platform is Windows (CE
4.2) however will be ported to other proprietary platforms at later
stage.

Cheers,
EBG

 

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

Probably a stupid question but does anyone know of a *free* FTP client
library implemented in C

(No, because standard C provides no facilities with which to write an
FTP client. Have you looked at sourceforge?)

(For the pedants, I suppose you could write an FTP client in standard
C, but I really don't think system("wget http://my.host/my.file")
counts.)

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[Richard Heathfield]

Christopher Benson-Manica said:

(No, because standard C provides no facilities with which to write an
FTP client. Have you looked at sourceforge?)

(For the pedants, I suppose you could write an FTP client in standard
C, but I really don't think system("wget http://my.host/my.file")
counts.)

You could write about 99.5% of it in standard C.

 

[Random832]

Christopher Benson-Manica said:


You could write about 99.5% of it in standard C.

99.9 - you'd really only need one non-standard-implementable function
for passive ftp.

FILE *tcpopen(const char *host, unsigned short port, const char *mode);

 

[Roland Pibinger]

Probably a stupid question but does anyone know of a *free* FTP client
library implemented in C, complete with source code? I've looked on the
web and as expected are 1000's of offerings, however couldn't find
anything with sources in C and is free.

Have you looked here http://www.koders.com/ or here
http://www.krugle.com/ ?

 

[Roberto Waltman]

...t does anyone know of a *free* FTP client
library implemented in C, complete with source code? I've looked on the
web and as expected are 1000's of offerings, however couldn't find
anything with sources in C and is free. Target platform is Windows (CE
4.2) however will be ported to other proprietary platforms at later
stage.

ftplib: http://nbpfaus.net/~pfau/ftplib/

 

[Dave Thompson]

(No, because standard C provides no facilities with which to write an
FTP client. Have you looked at sourceforge?)

Well, there's no _guaranteed_ way to get at TCP/IP comms, but they
could be accessible through stdio. In fact, they often are for
_servers_ run from inetd or similar. It would be rather constraining
for a library to rely on this however.

It is certainly possible to build commands and parse responses, and do
a reasonable command-line-type UI, in standard C. For a client you
don't strictly need nonblocking or async I/O or multithreading or even
timeouts, none of which are standard, although you can do a rather
better job if you have (some of?) them.

(For the pedants, I suppose you could write an FTP client in standard
C, but I really don't think system("wget http://my.host/my.file")
counts.)

I don't think it works either, unless you use a FTP-scheme URL.

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