Network Programming with Perl

Net::FTP

There's a directory on a remote FTP server that changes every few weeks. You want to mirror a copy of the directory on your local machine and update your copy every time it changes. You can't use one of the many "mirror" scripts to do this because the directory name contains a timestamp, and you need to do a pattern match to identify the right directory. Net::FTP to the rescue.

Net::FTP is part of the libnet utilities by Graham Barr. In addition to Net::FTP, libnet includes Net::SMTP, Net::NNTP, and Net::POP3 discussed in later chapters. When you install the libnet modules, the install script prompts you for various default configuration parameters used by the Net::* modules. This includes such things as an FTP firewall proxy and the ...