I am using Net::FTP to transfer MP3 files from Linux to a Windows environment. It works almost perfect. However, I have two functions below, one for sending a file from Linux->Windows, and one for deleting the uploaded file. I am using a CGI::App framework and outputting with HTML::Template.
If I upload a file, check if it exists, delete the file, check if it's gone, when I upload the file again I got a timeout error from the Net::FTP->new().
I need to find out what's wrong, so I put the call to Net::FTP in Debug mode. Does anyone know what's causing the problem? or does anyone know how to print out the debugging information to an HTML::Template file? 
sub sendFile {
# application object
my $self = shift;

# load template files
my $tmpl = $self->param('info' => $self->load_tmpl
('info.phtml'));

# create an ftp object
my $ftp = Net::FTP->new("XXX.XX.XX.XXX", Debug => 1, Port => 21) or di
+e "Cannot connect to host: $@";

# login to the ftp server
$ftp->login("user",'pass') or die $ftp->message;

# get root directory
$ftp->cwd() or die $ftp->message;

# get the filename
my $filename = "dir+filename";

# check if file exist
if(-e $filename){
  # send file in binary mode
  $ftp->binary;
      
  # send a file to the remote server
  $ftp->put($filename) or die $ftp->message;
}
    
# quit the ftp connection  
$ftp->quit;

# output
return $tmpl->output;
}


sub deleteFile {
# application object
my $self = shift;

# load template files
my $tmpl = $self->param('info' => $self->load_tmpl
('info.phtml'));

# create an ftp object
my $ftp = Net::FTP->new("XXX.XX.XX.XXX", Debug => 1, Port => 21) or di
+e "Cannot connect to host: $@";

# login to the ftp server
$ftp->login("user",'pass') or die $ftp->message;

# get root directory
$ftp->cwd() or die $ftp->message;

# get the filename
my $filename = "filename";

# delete a file to the remote server
$ftp->delete($filename);
  
# quit the ftp connection  
$ftp->quit;
  
# output
return $tmpl->output;
}

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