Perl

Quote and SendCommand

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Demonstrate the Quote and SendCommand methods. Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

my $ftp = Chilkat2::Ftp2->new;

$ftp->Hostname('ftp.example.com');
$ftp->Username('login');
$ftp->Password('password');

# Connect and login to the FTP server.
my $success = $ftp->Connect();
if (!$success) {
    print $ftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Tell the FTP object to keep an in-memory session log
# so we can see the commands sent to the server,
# and the responses received back.
$ftp->KeepSessionLog(1);

# Change the current remote directory via the Quote method:
$success = $ftp->Quote('CWD junk');
if (!$success) {
    print $ftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Move back up
# In this case, ChangeRemoteDir sends "CWD .." to the FTP server.
$success = $ftp->ChangeRemoteDir('..');
if (!$success) {
    print $ftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Do the same via the SendCommand method where the
# raw FTP server response is returned:
my $serverResponse = $ftp->SendCommand('CWD junk');
if (!$ftp->LastMethodSuccess) {
    print $ftp->LastErrorText, "\n";
} else {
    print $serverResponse, "\n";
}

$success = $ftp->Disconnect();

print "Session Log:\n";
print $ftp->SessionLog, "\n";