How To Download/upload File Through A Ftp Proxy Server With 'curl'

[saneax 0]

This help is for linux machines behind a FTP proxy.. (Note: Squid is not a true FTP Proxy server)

 

Say the proxy server is squid configured to be running on ' 192.168.0.10' Port '3128'

then some of the things we can do..

 

* List Files On FTP Server

 

curl --proxy 192.168.0.10:3128  xyz%3Amypass%40sharethespace.com%3A21

 

* Download a file

 

curl -o STSServerInstaller.exe --proxy 192.168.0.10:3128 http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

 

* Upload multiple files to the ftp server..

 

curl --upload-file "{rarlinux-3.6.0.tar.gz,vmlogo.xpm}" --verbose --proxy 192.168.0.10:3128  xyz%3Amypass%40sharethespace.com%3A21

 

Note: We are uploading two files ie. rarlinux-3.6.0.tar.gz and vmlogo.xpm, similarly we can state more files, with a comma seperated list.

 

* We can also give the username/ password in options which is much safer than using it on the URL.

 

curl --upload-file "{rarlinux-3.6.0.tar.gz ,vmlogo.xpm}" --verbose --proxy 192.168.0.10:3128 -u xyz:mypass  sharethespace.com 

 

curl -o STSServerInstaller.exe --proxy 192.168.0.10:3128 -u xyz:mypass http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

 

curl --proxy 192.168.0.10:3128 xyz:mypass http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

 

 

CURL is a free GPL'ed Utility available on various platforms. in linux it comes by default.. in case its not there, please visit https://curl.haxx.se/download.html and download the version required for your platform. Windows Binary download is here

 

Note: The normal FTP client (Shell or ftp on dos prompt) does not work with ftp proxy servers.

 

CURL is a free GPL'ed Utility available on various platforms. in linux it comes by default.. in case its not there, please visit https://curl.haxx.se/download.html and download the version required for your platform. Windows Binary download is here

 

Note: The normal FTP client (Shell or ftp on dos prompt) does not work with ftp proxy servers.

[mortalmatt 0]

This is a very nice tutorial; thanks I've used the curl function in PHP before to grab data from another remote webpage. It's a cool function to be able to grab statistics that are often updated from another website and post information related to that data on your own website.

[rockershive 0]

I changed my IP address using a proxy software. But hell the website I visited still identifies my true IP. Any help?

[J.C. 0]

Thanks! Very nice tutorial!