sending FTP packets in PHP

[yawnmoth]

so... i'm trying to send some FTP packets, via PHP, and... i'm not
really sure how to construct 'em. HTTP 1.0 packets have the following
structure:

GET http://whatever.com/ HTTP/1.0
Accept: */*
Referer: http://whateveryouwantagain.com/

etc

to send these packets, one would have to use fsocketopen, using port
80, and then fputs.

but what structure do FTP packets have? they'd probably have to have
a place for the password / username, but what else? also, is there,
perhapes, some PHP function that would make this easier? thanks! :)

[Nikolai Chuvakhin]

te*******@yahoo.com (yawnmoth) wrote in message
news:<a0**************************@posting.google. com>...

i'm trying to send some FTP packets, via PHP, and... i'm not
really sure how to construct 'em.
First of all, it is not necessary; PHP has a set of FTP functions:

http://www.php.net/ftp
one would have to use fsocketopen, using port 80, and then fputs.
Hmm... Actually, default FTP port is 21...
but what structure do FTP packets have?

If you are really curious, read RFC 959:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0959.txt

Cheers,
NC