sending FTP packets in PHP

[yawnmoth]

so... i'm trying to send some FTP packets, via PHP, and... i'm not
really sure how to construct 'em. HTTP 1.0 packets have the following
structure:

GET http://whatever.com/ HTTP/1.0
Accept: */*
Referer: http://whateveryouwantagain.com/

etc

to send these packets, one would have to use fsocketopen, using port
80, and then fputs.

but what structure do FTP packets have? they'd probably have to have
a place for the password / username, but what else? also, is there,
perhapes, some PHP function that would make this easier? thanks! :)

[Nikolai Chuvakhin]

Re: sending FTP packets in PHP

terra1024@yahoo .com (yawnmoth) wrote in message
news:<a0d63404. 0312141818.47a5 3861@posting.go ogle.com>...[color=blue]
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> i'm trying to send some FTP packets, via PHP, and... i'm not
> really sure how to construct 'em.[/color]

First of all, it is not necessary; PHP has a set of FTP functions:

http://www.php.net/ftp

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> one would have to use fsocketopen, using port 80, and then fputs.[/color]

Hmm... Actually, default FTP port is 21...
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> but what structure do FTP packets have?[/color]

If you are really curious, read RFC 959:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0959.txt

Cheers,
NC