Network Programming with Rust

Introduction to FTP and TFTP

Another common application layer protocol is the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). This is a text-based protocol, where the server and clients exchange text commands to upload and download files. The Rust ecosystem has a crate called rust-ftp to interact with FTP servers programmatically. Let us look at an example of its use. We set up our project using Cargo:

$ cargo new --bin ftp-example

Our Cargo.toml should look like this:

[package]name = "ftp-example"version = "0.1.0"authors = ["Foo<[e-mail]>"][dependencies.ftp]version = "2.2.1"

For this example to work, we will need a running FTP server somewhere. Once we have set that up and made sure a regular FTP client can connect to it, we can move on to our main code: ...