Net::FTP::dataconn
NAME
Net::FTP::dataconn - FTP Client data connection class
DESCRIPTION
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 intoBUFFER
, 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 fromBUFFER
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'.