FWIW, There aren't really any "standard" connection formats for ftp. Different versions of ftp are free to implement their own types of connection. That being said, most implementations seem to recognize those 7 formats. They have become defacto standards by convention. If you need a different format, it looks like you need to set up a custom .netrc file in your home directory. See man ftp and man netrc.

But that doesn't have anything to do with perl particularly....

Poking around in the guts of Net::Config, it looks like it will try to use a file called .libnetrc in your home directory to load custom settings.

Update: Actually, it looks like Net::FTP will load settings from .netrc if it exists. Check the perl docs for Net::Netrc.

In reply to Re: New FTP firewall type for Net::Config by thundergnat
in thread New FTP firewall type for Net::Config by Cuhulain

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