ftp problems in 4.2.1

[Mathias Koerber]

Hi,

I am quite new to PHP (but have experience with perl etc) and am facing
a certain issue with PHP 4.2.1's ftp function.

I am trying to extend a program to fetch a file from a remote server.

I tried:
ob_start();
$retval = @readfile("ftp://$user:$pass@$server:$port/$filename")
if (false != $retval) {
$contents = ob_get_contents()
}
ob_end_clean();

Here the problem is that PHP seems to want to execute a
SIZE /$filename
on the server instead of the correct
SIZE $filename

Using ftp_get I get a different error. Executing this code:
if (!($ftpConnection = @ftp_connect($server,$port))) {
$this->err_str = _("Server connection failed");
return false;
}

if (!(@ftp_login($ftpConnection, $user, $pass))) {
$this->err_str = _("Could not login - check password!");
@ftp_quit($ftpConnection);
return false;
}
if (!(@ftp_get($ftpConnection, $dst, $src, $mode))) {
$this->err_str = _("Could not get file!");
@ftp_quit($ftpConnection);
return false;
}
with a pre-created tempfile (tempnam) as $dst.

the FTP server (proftpd) logs a proper file transfer of n bytes
but the received tempfile is empty and ftp_get returns a FALSE
status.

I cannot however find any further indication of the problem
(such as an error variable or string pinpointing the cause).
I ended up using a
system("wget -O $tempfile ftp://$user:$pass@$server:$port/$filename")
which works a charm but is ugly.

I also find that the ftp_get takes a long time to return. the proftpd
server has long logged a successful transfer and session closure, yet
the function does not return.

does anyone have any hints what could be wrong?

thanks

[Niels Braczek]

Mathias Koerber <ma*****@lightspeed.com.sg> schrieb:

Hi,

I am quite new to PHP (but have experience with perl etc) and am
facing a certain issue with PHP 4.2.1's ftp function.

[...]
Your primary problem may be not to know, that 'de' in de.comp.lang.php.*
stands for 'german'. So repost in the correct language, please, or find
yourself a better fittig newsgroup.

regards
Niels

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