upload a file to a ftp server

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Ginso OP

Created Feb ’18

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Hello,

first of all i know ftp is outdated, but the customer wants, so it has to be.

How can i upload a file to an ftp server in swift?

I have hostname, username, password, port(as string) and the filepath to file on the phone(created in the same app)

If possible i want to avoid downloading any libraries.

Tanks in advance

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Feb ’18

IMO you should not implement FTP even though the customer wants it. FTP’s lack of security means that it’s not safe to use on the modern Internet. Is your customer happy with arbitrary folks being able to read their their plaintext user name and password off the ‘wire’? Because that’s an unavoidable aspect of FTP )-:

Regardless, you can run an FTP upload using the

CFFTPStream

API, as shown by the SimpleFTPSample sample code. Three things to note:

```
CFFTPStream
```
has been formally deprecated, but it does continue to work about as well as it ever did.
There is no official replacement for
```
CFFTPStream
```
. Apple’s position is that you should not be using FTP.
The sample is in Objective-C, not Swift. It’s unlikely to be updated because of the previous two points.

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