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--- a/src/eric7/Documentation/Source/eric7.EricNetwork.EricFtp.html Fri Oct 27 14:07:03 2023 +0200
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@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#EricFtp.login">login</a></td>
-<td></td>
+<td>Public method to login to the FTP server.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#EricFtp.setProxy">setProxy</a></td>
@@ -195,6 +195,125 @@
<h4>EricFtp.login</h4>
<b>login</b>(<i>user="", password="", acct=""</i>)
+<p>
+ Public method to login to the FTP server.
+</p>
+<p>
+ This extended method respects the FTP proxy configuration. There are
+ many different FTP proxy products available. But unfortunately there
+ is no standard for how o traverse a FTP proxy. The lis below shows
+ the sequence of commands used.
+</p>
+<p>
+ <table>
+ <tr><td>user</td><td>Username for remote host</td></tr>
+ <tr><td>pass</td><td>Password for remote host</td></tr>
+ <tr><td>pruser</td><td>Username for FTP proxy</td></tr>
+ <tr><td>prpass</td><td>Password for FTP proxy</td></tr>
+ <tr><td>remote.host</td><td>Hostname of the remote FTP server</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+</p>
+<p>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>EricFtpProxyType.NO_PROXY:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ USER user<br/>
+ PASS pass
+ </dd>
+ <dt>EricFtpProxyType.NON_AUTHORIZING:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ USER user@remote.host<br/>
+ PASS pass
+ </dd>
+ <dt>EricFtpProxyType.USER_SERVER:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ USER pruser<br/>
+ PASS prpass<br/>
+ USER user@remote.host<br/>
+ PASS pass
+ </dd>
+ <dt>EricFtpProxyType.SITE:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ USER pruser<br/>
+ PASS prpass<br/>
+ SITE remote.site<br/>
+ USER user<br/>
+ PASS pass
+ </dd>
+ <dt>EricFtpProxyType.OPEN:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ USER pruser<br/>
+ PASS prpass<br/>
+ OPEN remote.site<br/>
+ USER user<br/>
+ PASS pass
+ </dd>
+ <dt>EricFtpProxyType.USER_PROXYUSER_SERVER:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ USER user@pruser@remote.host<br/>
+ PASS pass@prpass
+ </dd>
+ <dt>EricFtpProxyType.PROXYUSER_SERVER:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ USER pruser@remote.host<br/>
+ PASS prpass<br/>
+ USER user<br/>
+ PASS pass
+ </dd>
+ <dt>EricFtpProxyType.AUTH_RESP:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ USER user@remote.host<br/>
+ PASS pass<br/>
+ AUTH pruser<br/>
+ RESP prpass
+ </dd>
+ <dt>EricFtpProxyType.BLUECOAT:</dt>
+ <dd>
+ USER user@remote.host pruser<br/>
+ PASS pass<br/>
+ ACCT prpass
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+</p>
+<dl>
+
+<dt><i>user</i> (str)</dt>
+<dd>
+username for the remote host
+</dd>
+<dt><i>password</i> (str)</dt>
+<dd>
+password for the remote host
+</dd>
+<dt><i>acct</i> (str)</dt>
+<dd>
+accounting information for the remote host
+</dd>
+</dl>
+<dl>
+<dt>Return:</dt>
+<dd>
+response sent by the remote host
+</dd>
+</dl>
+<dl>
+<dt>Return Type:</dt>
+<dd>
+str
+</dd>
+</dl>
+<dl>
+
+<dt>Raises <b>EricFtpProxyError</b>:</dt>
+<dd>
+raised to indicate a proxy related issue
+</dd>
+<dt>Raises <b>ftplib.error_reply</b>:</dt>
+<dd>
+raised to indicate an FTP error reply
+</dd>
+</dl>
<a NAME="EricFtp.setProxy" ID="EricFtp.setProxy"></a>
<h4>EricFtp.setProxy</h4>
<b>setProxy</b>(<i>proxyType=EricFtpProxyType.NO_PROXY, proxyHost="", proxyPort=ftplib.FTP_PORT, proxyUser="", proxyPassword="", proxyAccount="", </i>)
