How to make a FTP client

[Saurabh Vijayvargiya]

Hello everybody I am new to programming community ,but i know basics of java (those little program which are wrote to clear the concepts) .Now i need to make a FTP client for my college project .If anybody can guide or provide any tuts. than that would be a great help.
Thanks in advance

[Jeff Verdegan]

You basically have two options:

1) Study RFC 959 and implement it.

2) Google for a thirdparty FTP library that will handle the low-level protocol stuff for you, and build your app on top of that.

[Saurabh Vijayvargiya]

but i don't know where to start ....... thats why i asked for guidence. BTW thanks a lot for replying

[Jeff Verdegan]

Saurabh Vijayvargiya wrote:but i don't know where to start

Read this: http://home.earthlink.net/~patricia_shanahan/beginner.html

If you want more specific help you'll need to ask a more specific question.

[Tim Moores]

Writing a complete FTP client is not a good project if you are new to programming; there'll be too many things for you to implement that you do not yet understand. Following Jeff's advice and building something on top of a library like Apache Commons Net would be more feasible.