Re: lftp as a c/c++ library

Randall McPherson <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Feb 2015 08:22:25 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.network.lftp.user
Message-ID <CAF9Un8BZP2emVoNE1JT-_L=0-JeMkavd=_tD_TzrWaNiu+GxoA@mail.gmail.com>
Thanks for the pointers to the task and job libraries, that should be
enough to get started.

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Alexander V. Lukyanov <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 09:56:02AM -0500, Randall McPherson wrote:
> > lftp is the best sftp / ftp client I know of, especially for gracefully
> > handling the many non-compliant ftp server implementations. It would be
> > awesome to use it as a c/c++ library, calling it directly from other
> code.
> > Is it feasible to use part of the lftp code as a library and has anyone
> > done this? I couldn't find anything in the man page or other
> documentation
> > saying definitively either way. I've built a small tool in the past that
> > runs it using a script file, (`lftp -f`) but it would be great if it
> could
> > be called more interactively as a library.
>
> It's possible to link to liblftp-tasks and liblftp-jobs libraries. The API
> is
> not documented though, there are just several examples in the lftp sources.
>
> --
>    Alexander.
>



-- 
- Randall

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