RobK has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm effectively a newbie, trying to get back into perl after a long time. As a learning task I'm trying to construct myself a rudimentary FTP scraper. Any suggestions for a good package to start with?

I already tried Win32::Internet because I'm using microsoft (Windows7); but ...

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Re: best FTP
by marto (Cardinal) on Sep 07, 2021 at 11:56 UTC
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      Thanks for responding

      I had thought that was *NIX oriented, but I'll give it a try.

      Since my objective here is to relearn perl, even a failure is potentially worthwhile

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        Be sure to post back should you experience any issues.

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        I had thought that was *NIX oriented, but I'll give it a try

        The script that I use to transfer database backup files from our webserver makes use of Net::FTP. The script runs on a Windows 10 machine (using Strawberry Perl) at home so the backup files are offsite from the server.

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Re: best FTP
by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Sep 07, 2021 at 14:20 UTC
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Re: best FTP
by kcott (Archbishop) on Sep 07, 2021 at 22:51 UTC

    G'day RobK,

    Welcome to the Monastery.

    With regard to your earlier post:

    "... but I'll try to spare you newbie's own mistakes ..."

    I upvoted that because you're new here and, on the face of it, that apparently seemed like a reasonable course of action; however, you're clearly not across our general philosophy.

    Learning from mistakes — whether those you or others have made — is entirely valid; in many cases, it's more useful than learning from successes. See "How do I change/delete my post?" for a more in-depth discussion on that.

    So please, post both the code that does, and doesn't, work; and include all messages (warnings, errors, and so on). Provide an explanation for the faulty code (or request such if you can't explain it). Future readers will appreciate your input.

    As a final note, it's generally useful to advise of your operating system and the version of Perl in use. For the most part, Perl is backwardly compatible; however, you may get messages which in some versions indicate that 'some_functon' is experimental — in later versions that message may disappear or be upgraded from "experimental" to "deprecated". In a number of cases, knowing your Perl version helps us to better help you.

    — Ken

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Re: best FTP
by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Sep 09, 2021 at 08:07 UTC
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