Hey Monks,

I'm attempting to track the progress of a file upload to an FTP server.

I'm currently opening the file, reading 2,000,000 bytes into a scalar, writing those bytes to a local output file, then using the append() method of the Net::FTP module to append the output file to the one on the server.

This works, but is there any way to eliminate the middle step and just write directly to the file on the FTP server?

Here's my code: 
open(INFILE, "<", $fileToRead);
binmode INFILE;

my $ftp = Net::FTP->new("ftp.example.com");
$ftp->login('username', 'password');
$ftp->binary();

while (read INFILE, my $data, 2000000)
{
    open(OUTFILE, ">", $fileToWrite);
    binmode OUTFILE;
    print OUTFILE $data;
    close(OUTFILE);
    $ftp->append($fileToWrite);
    # Here's where I will print the progress...
}

$ftp->quit();

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In reply to Track file upload progress by PerlRob

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