Example of Uploading Files

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∟1971 - FTP Protocol Created by Abhay Bhushan

∟Example of Uploading Files

This section provides an example FTP session of uploading files.

Here is an example of an FTP session that uploads files from a FTP server machine:

>ftp localhost
Connected to localhost.
220 Microsoft FTP Service
User (localhost:(none)): herong
331 Password required for herong.
Password: ********
230 User herong logged in.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
  11:05PM                 5537 ftp.html
  03:43PM                 5082 index.html
  08:39PM                 1174 reference.html
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 155 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 155000.00Kbytes/sec.
ftp> put help.html
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for help.html.
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 728 bytes sent in 0.00Seconds 728000.00Kbytes/sec.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
  11:05PM                 5537 ftp.html
  11:53PM                  728 help.html
  03:43PM                 5082 index.html
  08:39PM                 1174 reference.html
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 205 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 205000.00Kbytes/sec.
ftp> quit
221

Note that most FTP servers do not allow you to upload files, because they are configured to support file download only. To upload a file, you must login with an FTP account that has the write permission.