Re: perl and ftp

2001-09-21 Thread Pete Sergeant
> My question is: > Do the username and passwd have to be hardcoded in the > script or can I pass these values from a file? Does > ftp have any way of getting credentials (at least for > the password) from an encrypted file? Depends on how the files are encrypted. What I would suggest is writing

perl and ftp

2001-09-20 Thread Sofia
I want to connect to an FTP server and get some files. I found the "Being an FTP Client" document in the Perl Cookbook which has the following lines: $ftp = Net::FTP->new("ftp.host.com") or die "Can't connect: $@\n"; $ftp->login($username, $passwd) or die "Couldn't login\n"; My question is: Do