My xbox is special. Unlike the store bought xboxen, mine has an FTP server that I can use to put files on it and take them off. Unfortunately, the ftp server doesn't have a complete set of ftp commands. ls -al works fine, but ls does not. NLIST doesn't work, CD by absolute pathnames doesn't always work, though CD by relative filenames usually does.

I can ncftp the box (though some things don't work), but I can't mount it with lufs, midnight commander, etc...

I reasoned out that I could probably write an FTP proxy that would take commands like ls, NLST and re-write them -- to make it appear the commands were finished.

Every time I started to write the FTP proxy, I discovered the project was a great deal more difficult than I wanted it to be. Is there a really easy way to write an FTP proxy that I'm just missing? I found a few things on CPAN, but nothing specifically helpful.

Net::FTPServer seems like the coolest ftp server I have ever seen. I'd guess it can help me write my proxy. But I'm just not sure that's a good way. Is tjat a good way? Is there a better way?

All tips welcome. Thanks for your help.

In reply to FTP Proxy by jettero

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