Net::FTP::dataconn(3p)

Net::FTP::dataconn3p

Ftp client data connection class

Usage

    # Perform IO operations on an FTP client data connection object:
    $num_bytes_read = $obj->read($buffer, $size);
    $num_bytes_read = $obj->read($buffer, $size, $timeout);
    $num_bytes_written = $obj->write($buffer, $size);
    $num_bytes_written = $obj->write($buffer, $size, $timeout);
    $num_bytes_read_so_far = $obj->bytes_read();
    $obj->abort();
    $closed_successfully = $obj->close();

Overview

Some of the methods defined in "Net::FTP" return an object which will be derived from this class. The dataconn class itself is derived from the "IO::Socket::INET" class, so any normal IO operations can be performed. However the following methods are defined in the dataconn class and IO should be performed using these.

"read($buffer, $size[, $timeout])"

Read $size bytes of data from the server and place it into $buffer, also performing any <CRLF> translation necessary. $timeout is optional, if not given, the timeout value from the command connection will be used.

Returns the number of bytes read before any <CRLF> translation.

"write($buffer, $size[, $timeout])"

Write $size bytes of data from $buffer to the server, also performing any <CRLF> translation necessary. $timeout is optional, if not given, the timeout value from the command connection will be used.

Returns the number of bytes written before any <CRLF> translation.

bytes_read()

Returns the number of bytes read so far.

abort()

Abort the current data transfer.

close()

Close the data connection and get a response from the FTP server. Returns true if the connection was closed successfully and the first digit of the response from the server was a '2'.

Exports

None.

Known bugs

None.

Licence

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, i.e. under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the LICENCE file.

Version

Version 3.15

Date

20 March 2023

Releases

21 releases since OpenBSD 6.1; the text changed 14 times.

  1. 6.1
  2. 6.2
  3. 6.3–6.4
  4. 6.5
  5. 6.6
  6. 6.7
  7. 6.8
  8. 6.9–7.2
  9. 7.3
  10. 7.4
  11. 7.5
  12. 7.6
  13. 7.7–7.8
  14. 7.9
  15. 8.0

Author

Graham Barr <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>.

Steve Hay <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> is now maintaining libnet as of version 1.22_02.

History

See the Changes file.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.