Accessible ftp

Accessible ftp

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Hi everyone,

I need a way to connect to some ftp sirvers, what would you recommend, 
weather it be CLI or GUI really doesn't matter to me.

-- 
Warm regards,

Brandt Steenkamp

Sent using Thunderbird from the Slint laptop

Accessible ftp

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Tim here.  I've always just used the command-line client (since the
late 80s or early 90s over dial-up?) which is accessible as any other
CLI application:

  $ ftp ftp.example.com
  ftp> ls
  [files & directories]
  ftp> cd /pub
  ftp> ls
  [files & directories in /pub]
  ftp> bin
  200 Type set to I.
  ftp> get some_file.zip
  [file downloads]
  ftp> put local_file.mp3
  [uploads "local_file.mp3" to the server]

If you're only transferring text documents, you can skip the "bin"ary
command, letting it jockey line-endings for you.  But most of the
time you want to use "bin"ary mode to ensure the file doesn't have
newline-translation during transfer.

-Tim


On May 30, 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> I need a way to connect to some ftp sirvers, what would you
> recommend, weather it be CLI or GUI really doesn't matter to me.

Accessible ftp

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Hi Brant: I want to suggest a couple of CLI packages. #1 on my list is ncftp. 
It has alot of options, my favorit, you can use a --DD to delete files once 
successful. Another package which we had to setup instead  for me to upload to 
my web-site is cadaver. This one doesn't seem to let you switch among 
text-and-binary.
Chime

Accessible ftp

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Following up here, I also often use curl

   $ curl ftp://ftp.example.com/path/to/download.tgz
   $ curl --ftp-create-dirs -T local.tgz ftp://ftp.example.com/some/location/

(you only need the "--ftp-create-dirs" if you're uploading to a
directory that doesn't exist)

Hope this helps,

-Tim

On May 30, 2022, Tim Chase wrote:
> Tim here.  I've always just used the command-line client (since the
> late 80s or early 90s over dial-up?) which is accessible as any
> other CLI application:
> 
>   $ ftp ftp.example.com
>   ftp> ls  
>   [files & directories]
>   ftp> cd /pub
>   ftp> ls  
>   [files & directories in /pub]
>   ftp> bin  
>   200 Type set to I.
>   ftp> get some_file.zip  
>   [file downloads]
>   ftp> put local_file.mp3  
>   [uploads "local_file.mp3" to the server]
> 
> If you're only transferring text documents, you can skip the
> "bin"ary command, letting it jockey line-endings for you.  But most
> of the time you want to use "bin"ary mode to ensure the file
> doesn't have newline-translation during transfer.
> 
> -Tim
> 
> 
> On May 30, 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > I need a way to connect to some ftp sirvers, what would you
> > recommend, weather it be CLI or GUI really doesn't matter to me.  
> 

Accessible ftp

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Ok, sorry, I was probably not as clear as I should have been. One of the 
sites I have to connect to asks for ftp over tls, and none of the 4 
sites has standard port 21 as the connection default.

I know I could probably use filezilla on the GUI, but I'd prefer the CLI.

Warm regards,

Brandt Steenkamp

Sent using Thunderbird from the Slint laptop

On 2022/05/30 18:49, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Tim here.  I've always just used the command-line client (since the
> late 80s or early 90s over dial-up?) which is accessible as any other
> CLI application:
>
>    $ ftp ftp.example.com
>    ftp> ls
>    [files & directories]
>    ftp> cd /pub
>    ftp> ls
>    [files & directories in /pub]
>    ftp> bin
>    200 Type set to I.
>    ftp> get some_file.zip
>    [file downloads]
>    ftp> put local_file.mp3
>    [uploads "local_file.mp3" to the server]
>
> If you're only transferring text documents, you can skip the "bin"ary
> command, letting it jockey line-endings for you.  But most of the
> time you want to use "bin"ary mode to ensure the file doesn't have
> newline-translation during transfer.
>
> -Tim
>
>
> On May 30, 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> I need a way to connect to some ftp sirvers, what would you
>> recommend, weather it be CLI or GUI really doesn't matter to me.
> _______________________________________________
> Blinux-list mailing list
> Blinux-list at redhat.com
> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
>

Accessible ftp

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Hi Brandt,

lftp, sftp (CLI) gftp (GUI by default but the is also gftp-txt that I never
used) can do ftp over ssh and are instaklled bu default in Slint.

lftp and sftp have good man pages

lftp is amazing: to mirror a website just type:
lftp -c "mirror <url>"

Cheers,

Didier


Le 30/05/2022 ? 19:10, Linux for blind general discussion a ?crit?:
> Ok, sorry, I was probably not as clear as I should have been. One of the sites I
> have to connect to asks for ftp over tls, and none of the 4 sites has standard
> port 21 as the connection default.
> 
> I know I could probably use filezilla on the GUI, but I'd prefer the CLI.
> 
> Warm regards,
> 
> Brandt Steenkamp
> 
> Sent using Thunderbird from the Slint laptop
> 
> On 2022/05/30 18:49, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> Tim here.? I've always just used the command-line client (since the
>> late 80s or early 90s over dial-up?) which is accessible as any other
>> CLI application:
>>
>> ?? $ ftp ftp.example.com
>> ?? ftp> ls
>> ?? [files & directories]
>> ?? ftp> cd /pub
>> ?? ftp> ls
>> ?? [files & directories in /pub]
>> ?? ftp> bin
>> ?? 200 Type set to I.
>> ?? ftp> get some_file.zip
>> ?? [file downloads]
>> ?? ftp> put local_file.mp3
>> ?? [uploads "local_file.mp3" to the server]
>>
>> If you're only transferring text documents, you can skip the "bin"ary
>> command, letting it jockey line-endings for you.? But most of the
>> time you want to use "bin"ary mode to ensure the file doesn't have
>> newline-translation during transfer.
>>
>> -Tim
>>
>>
>> On May 30, 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>> I need a way to connect to some ftp sirvers, what would you
>>> recommend, weather it be CLI or GUI really doesn't matter to me.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Blinux-list mailing list
>> Blinux-list at redhat.com
>> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
>>
> 
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Tim here again.  For FTP-over-TLS (also known as FTPS which
confusingly is different from SFTP), curl supports it well:

 $ curl --sl -T local.zip "ftps://ftp.example.com/path/to/dest/newname.zip"

to send a file and

 $ curl --ssl "ftps://ftp.example.com/path/to/file.zip"

to download a file.

-Tim


On May 30, 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Ok, sorry, I was probably not as clear as I should have been. One
> of the sites I have to connect to asks for ftp over tls, and none
> of the 4 sites has standard port 21 as the connection default.
> 
> I know I could probably use filezilla on the GUI, but I'd prefer
> the CLI.
> 
> Warm regards,
> 
> Brandt Steenkamp
> 
> Sent using Thunderbird from the Slint laptop
> 
> On 2022/05/30 18:49, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > Tim here.  I've always just used the command-line client (since
> > the late 80s or early 90s over dial-up?) which is accessible as
> > any other CLI application:
> >
> >    $ ftp ftp.example.com  
> >    ftp> ls  
> >    [files & directories]  
> >    ftp> cd /pub
> >    ftp> ls  
> >    [files & directories in /pub]  
> >    ftp> bin  
> >    200 Type set to I.  
> >    ftp> get some_file.zip  
> >    [file downloads]  
> >    ftp> put local_file.mp3  
> >    [uploads "local_file.mp3" to the server]
> >
> > If you're only transferring text documents, you can skip the
> > "bin"ary command, letting it jockey line-endings for you.  But
> > most of the time you want to use "bin"ary mode to ensure the file
> > doesn't have newline-translation during transfer.
> >
> > -Tim
> >
> >
> > On May 30, 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:  
> >> I need a way to connect to some ftp sirvers, what would you
> >> recommend, weather it be CLI or GUI really doesn't matter to me.
> >>  
> > _______________________________________________
> > Blinux-list mailing list
> > Blinux-list at redhat.com
> > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
> >  
> 
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Hi Didier and all,

You are correct, lftp is very good.

It, however is a pain to figure out how to use, but once you got the 
hang of it, it works very well.

Thanks for that one.

Warm regards,

Brandt Steenkamp

Sent using Thunderbird from the Slint laptop

On 2022/05/30 19:24, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Hi Brandt,
>
> lftp, sftp (CLI) gftp (GUI by default but the is also gftp-txt that I never
> used) can do ftp over ssh and are instaklled bu default in Slint.
>
> lftp and sftp have good man pages
>
> lftp is amazing: to mirror a website just type:
> lftp -c "mirror <url>"
>
> Cheers,
>
> Didier
>
>
> Le 30/05/2022 ? 19:10, Linux for blind general discussion a ?crit?:
>> Ok, sorry, I was probably not as clear as I should have been. One of the sites I
>> have to connect to asks for ftp over tls, and none of the 4 sites has standard
>> port 21 as the connection default.
>>
>> I know I could probably use filezilla on the GUI, but I'd prefer the CLI.
>>
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Brandt Steenkamp
>>
>> Sent using Thunderbird from the Slint laptop
>>
>> On 2022/05/30 18:49, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>> Tim here.? I've always just used the command-line client (since the
>>> late 80s or early 90s over dial-up?) which is accessible as any other
>>> CLI application:
>>>
>>>  ?? $ ftp ftp.example.com
>>>  ?? ftp> ls
>>>  ?? [files & directories]
>>>  ?? ftp> cd /pub
>>>  ?? ftp> ls
>>>  ?? [files & directories in /pub]
>>>  ?? ftp> bin
>>>  ?? 200 Type set to I.
>>>  ?? ftp> get some_file.zip
>>>  ?? [file downloads]
>>>  ?? ftp> put local_file.mp3
>>>  ?? [uploads "local_file.mp3" to the server]
>>>
>>> If you're only transferring text documents, you can skip the "bin"ary
>>> command, letting it jockey line-endings for you.? But most of the
>>> time you want to use "bin"ary mode to ensure the file doesn't have
>>> newline-translation during transfer.
>>>
>>> -Tim
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 30, 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>>> I need a way to connect to some ftp sirvers, what would you
>>>> recommend, weather it be CLI or GUI really doesn't matter to me.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Blinux-list mailing list
>>> Blinux-list at redhat.com
>>> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Blinux-list mailing list
>> Blinux-list at redhat.com
>> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
>>
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