Perl

Send an FTP NOOP (Keep-Alive)

Demonstrates the Chilkat Ftp2.Noop method, which sends the FTP NOOP command. It takes no arguments and succeeds only when the server returns a positive reply.

Background: NOOP asks the server to do nothing and simply reply, which makes it the standard keep-alive: sending one periodically resets the server's idle timer so a long-running job does not lose its control connection between transfers. Because it exercises a real request/reply round trip, a successful NOOP is also firmer evidence the connection is alive than CheckConnection.

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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

#  Demonstrates the Ftp2.Noop method, which sends the FTP NOOP command.  It takes no arguments.
#  The server must return a positive reply for the method to succeed.

$ftp = chilkat::CkFtp2->new();

$ftp->put_Hostname("ftp.example.com");
$ftp->put_Username("myFtpLogin");

#  Normally you would not hard-code the password in source.  You should instead obtain it
#  from an interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
$ftp->put_Password("myPassword");

#  Connect and log in (Connect performs both).
$success = $ftp->Connect();
if ($success == 0) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  NOOP does nothing on the server, but a successful reply confirms the control connection is
#  still responsive -- useful as a keep-alive during an otherwise idle session.
$success = $ftp->Noop();
if ($success == 0) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "NOOP acknowledged by the server." . "\r\n";

$success = $ftp->Disconnect();
if ($success == 0) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}