Folks,

I am trying to help a non-technical user behind a corporate firewall to reliably send files via FTP.

I have Net::FTP doing sleep/retry for transient errors fine here, but we are not behind an FTP proxy. I have a copy of a working transfer from them, from which I can infer that they have a FirewallType of 4. However they do not have Net::Config properly configured - corporate standards et al.

I cannot find a way to tell Net::FTP the fwuser and fwpass except via the Net::Config files. Having looked at the Net::FTP source, am I correct in assuming therefore that there is no Net::FTP interface for passing these values as args anywhere? Does this mean that I will have to use something like: 

  logDebug "opening connection to $arg{firewall}...";
  my $ftp = Net::FTP->new(
      $arg{firewall},
      Debug         => $DEBUG )
    or logError "failed connection: $arg{firewall}: $@"
    and return 0;

  logDebug "logging into $arg{firewall} as $arg{fwuser}...";
  $ftp->login($arg{fwuser},$arg{fwpass})
    or logError "failed login: $arg{fwuser}\@$arg{firewall} " . $ftp->
+message()
    and return 0;

  logDebug "connecting to $arg{host}...";
  $ftp->quot('OPEN',$arg{host})
    or logError "failed OPEN: $arg{host} " . $ftp->message()
    and return 0;

  logDebug "logging in on $arg{host}...";
  $ftp->login($arg{user},$arg{password})
    or logError "failed login: $arg{user}\@$arg{host} " . $ftp->messag
+e()
    and return 0;

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Apologies for having to ask this, but I don't have a test environment, and the non-techie user is, well, rather non-technical, and in another country/timezone.

Regards & thanks,
Jeff

In reply to Net::FTP firewall fwuser fwpass by jaa

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