Downloading pdf from ftp is corrupting it

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I am trying to do something very simple. I have a PDF sitting in my root (I'm on a mac). So, first, I want to upload the pdf from the terminal:

curl -T myPDF.pdf ftp://user:password@domain.com/

then, I download it:

ftp name@domain.com
[then it asks for my password, and I type it]
get myPDF.pdf

and this downloads the pdf to my local machine. Then, I open up the PDF, and it's corrupted.

So somewhere in the process of uploading it or downloading it, the PDF gets corrupted. Ideas?

Best Answer

Transfer it in binary mode instead of ASCII.

curl -T myPDF.pdf -Q "TYPE I" ftp://user:password@domain.com/

And then for the download, before you type your get command, type binary to set the ftp client to binary transfer mode.

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There is no cross specification of HTTP and FTP which would allow the two to interact. Someone, somewhere, would have to download, and then upload it.

If you have shell access to the web server, the easiest way would be to upload it directly from the webserver to the ftp server with the ftp command (Assuming it's a *nix server.)

If you have shell access to the ftp server, then you could also use the wget command to download the file directly to the ftp server, again assuming it's a *nix server.

Windows – Default Installed FTP Client

You can authenticate with Internet Explorer by including the credentials in the URL, however it will prompt for username and password if you don't enter them.

ftp://username:password@host.example.com/path/to/files

I haven't tried it but I would expect a non-standard port to be specified in the usual way

ftp://username:password@host.example.com:10021/path/to/files

You can specify a port on the command line like this

C:\> ftp
ftp> open host.example.com 10021

UPDATE: The Windows explorer address bar usually shows drive letter and path (e.g. C:\somewhere) but you can type in a URL like those above, it can then be used as a drag&drop target for uploading a file to an FTP server.

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