Connecting to FTP from Java

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Nettar - 16 Mar 2006 15:02 GMT

Hi all,

I have a problem.

I want to connect to an ftp site from Java.
My problem is that my password has !, @ and # characters.

So, if I construct the url as ftp://user:pass@www.domain.com/file.txt
it doesn't work.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Jayarama Nettar.

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tom fredriksen - 16 Mar 2006 15:37 GMT

> I want to connect to an ftp site from Java.
> My problem is that my password has !, @ and # characters.
>
> So, if I construct the url as ftp://user:pass@www.domain.com/file.txt
> it doesn't work.

Escape the character

/tom

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Rhino - 16 Mar 2006 16:12 GMT

>> I want to connect to an ftp site from Java.
>> My problem is that my password has !, @ and # characters.
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> Escape the character

For example: ftp://user\:pass\@www.domain.com/file.txt\#abc

(Untested!!)

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Rhino

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Timo Stamm - 16 Mar 2006 16:57 GMT

Rhino schrieb:

>>> I want to connect to an ftp site from Java.
>>> My problem is that my password has !, @ and # characters.
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> For example: ftp://user\:pass\@www.domain.com/file.txt\#abc

That's Java String escaping. What is required is probably URL escaping:

p@ssword -> p%40ssword

Timo

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Rhino - 16 Mar 2006 18:20 GMT

> Rhino schrieb:
>>>> I want to connect to an ftp site from Java.
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> p@ssword -> p%40ssword

You might be right; I've never tried to FTP to Java directly - I use Ant for
that purpose - and I was just trying to create an example of what Tom
Frederiksen suggested. I may have missed the boat though.

Sorry if I've given an inappropriate example!

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Rhino

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Nettar - 17 Mar 2006 06:11 GMT

Thanks Timo.

This URL escaping worked very well.

Thanks for all others who tried to help me.

Regards,
Jayarama Nettar.

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Lord0 - 16 Mar 2006 17:15 GMT

You may want to look at Jakarta Commons Net

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Jim McMaster - 17 Mar 2006 03:02 GMT

> You may want to look at Jakarta Commons Net

I second that. I just had to add FTP functionality to an application.
Jakarta Commons Net made it very easy.