FTP workaround

spstieng

I'm connected to the internet through to my university (dial up) and school policy denies outside FTP access.
This sux when I need to upload files to free webhosts that do not have HTTP ftps.

I have used web FTPs successfully (HTTP) SO, I was thinking of making my own HTTP FTP on my homepage which is located on the Unis server, that will upload the files for me through HTTP ftp.

How do I go about making such a page?
Does anyone have som PHP code they could paste, og maybe some references to some tutorials?

Thanks :p

werkkrew

There are a lot of ways you could do this I suppose...

Depending on what system the webserver is on you could have a form post to a script that runs an exec() command to actually use the ftp client on the host machine to do the uploading...

Or you could make a sort of "web locker" where the script uploads the file to the web server and makes it accessible that way...

The first example I have chosen is probably more what youre looking for...

Have a form with the ftp address, username, password, file post to a script that executes a command on the server that will run a command prompt version of an ftp client, it wont be very portable, but im sure it would work fine...

I know the windows dos ftp command is simply "ftp" with some set of parameters

the unix/linux command highly depends on what version of linux it is and what packages are installed...youd have to do a little research

spstieng

I must use http ftp.

Webservers at uni are hosted on Unix servers.

From uni, or at home connected to uni, I cannot write (from cmd) ftp hostname.com. Neither can I use normal FTP.
I can use ftp from cmd prompt and acess uni ftp server.

I can also use http ftps from websites that offers that functionality. So what I want to do, is to create a webpage where I select the pags to be uploaded and then the webside will "forward" these files to the host website using http ftp.

But if my university has blocked FTP sockets outside uni, will I be able to use HTTP ftp socket to upload files to non-http ftps?

Think I'm explaining myself a bit poorly here.

Here's the process:
Files from my computer -> PHP program that I have put on my schools web server (my web page) -> accepts files from me (download) -> uploads file to destiantion webhost (FTP) by using http-ftp protocoll.