Have a go at doing this yourself. Do a little research. Google and Super Search are your friends. Have a look on CPAN. What you're wanting to do seems like a pretty common task. Who knows, maybe there is a module or two available that might help. You won't know unless you look.

Get your hands dirty, write a bit of code. Here's a tip - check out some of merlyn's columns. I wouldn't be surprised if he has written one to demonstrate how to solve a problem such as this.

In other words, people here are much more likely to help somebody who has already shown some effort.

--Darren

I have to agree with McDarren - asking for a finished product here may not be entirely appropriate (unless you are willing to pay someone, of course.)

However, because I'm a bit soft, I'll give you a couple of clues to get you going:

• Net::FTP
• LWP

Hi,

THanks for your advise. I tried to develop with Perl this code but I experienced some issues and I cannot retrieve a file from an FTP server (Unix) to a local disk (c:\) in a desktop(Windows).

Here is the code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::FTP;

my $backup_dir = "C:/partage";
my $remote_backup_dir = "/home/toto";
my $remote_file = "toto.txt";
my $dir = "/home/toto";

my $ftp = Net::FTP->new("192.168.1.17", Passive => 1, Debug => 1);

$ftp->login('toto','pass10');
$ftp->cwd($dir) || die "Unable to change directories";
$ftp->binary();
$ftp->get($remote_file,"toto.txt");
$ftp->quit;
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I get this error when I try to run this code from a website as: http://192.168.1.17/cgi-bin/papa1.pl and I get this error message:

Internal Server Error
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Thanks in advance.

Surrounding your code with <code> tags will make it easier for others to read, and will give you a better chance of getting a response. See Writeup Formatting Tips.

The first part of debugging the above is to try running it from a command line. If it works as expected from the command line (with no errors), but not through a browser - then the next place to look is your web server error logs. If you don't have access to the logs, then you can use the CGI::Carp module (use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);) to have any errors displayed in your browser.

Update: Oh, and one final point. Posting usernames/passwords in a public forum is not a particularly clever idea, even if the server in question is in a private network.

Cheers,
Darren