Yes, I finished a new implementation for ftp using commons-net
about a week ago. It is currently in a long test run and will be submitted
in two/three weeks.

John

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:03:57PM -0800, Shiraz Kanga wrote:
> John - Apache commons has an FTP client. Have you tried it? See 
> http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/net/apidocs/org/apache/commons/net/ftp/package-tree.html
>  
> for more info.
> 
> shiraz
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >Hi, Doug,
> >
> > 
> >
> >>>My current ftp implementation
> >>>uses java URL class (with help of a little hacked sun.net.www.*)
> >>>and is thus not fully portable, though pretty reliable. 
> >>>I will post it after some cleanup. Any suggestions?
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>What are the copyright restictions on the sun.net.www.* code?  My 
> >>guess is that we probably can't accept a hacked version of that code. 
> >>If the code is already included in most JVMs, can you get away with 
> >>subclassing things, overriding a few methods?
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >I will look into this.
> >
> > 
> >
> >>How hard would it be to write a simple FTP client from scratch?  I 
> >>originally wrote Nutch's HTTP client in about a day.  It's evolved 
> >>since then to support more features, but a working, correct HTTP 
> >>client is not very difficult to write.  Is FTP that much harder?
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >For one, FTP involves two channels: data and command.
> >I was trying to beat a deadline and could not ask our sponsor
> >for the luxury of a fresh write (otherwise our proposal would have been
> >flatly turned down). In two months (after pushing through my
> >current project), I will have time available to reexamine the 
> >situation.
> >
> >Thank you very much for nutch.
> >
> >John
> >
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