ftp web page login

paul_mat · 11-15-2005, 07:17 PM

hi there,

i'm looking for a webpage with a login/password box that allows you to log onto a ftp server without having to enter the password/username in clear text in the URL like 'ftp://username

assword@mydomain.com'. does anyone out there know of something like this?

i'm not looking for a web based ftp client, just a login page.

microsoft/linux · 11-15-2005, 07:41 PM

paul_mat · 11-15-2005, 08:09 PM

becuase i think it would be handy just to have a website that could be linked to and your username/password entered into it and then could logon. i like the IE ftp view.

i've started making a HTML/php script, i'm pretty average at php as you will probably be able to tell

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
</TITLE>
<HEAD>
<BODY>
Username: <input type="text" name="user" value="">
<P>
Password: <input type="text" name="pass" value="">
<P>
<A HREF="ftp://$user:$pass@mydomain.com"><input type="submit" value="Login"></a>
</BODY>
</HTML>

if anyone can fix that up it'd be great, i'm not near my fedora box at the moment so i can't test any php, although i know that wont work.

microsoft/linux · 11-15-2005, 08:44 PM

so you want to be able to link to an FTP account? One that you don't have acess to? I'm kinda confused as to what you're trying to do. If you have an FTP account on a server, go ahead and use that.

paul_mat · 11-15-2005, 09:45 PM

in the website listed below, there is two boxes, one for someone's username one for someone's password, when they enter in there usename/password and press the 'login' button i want to take the information out of the two boxes and place it in a url

ftp://(this is were the information from the username box goes):(this is were the information from the password box goes)@mydomain.com

so it makes a link, all the users has to do is enter there username and password info the box and press login.

all i need to do, is figure out how to output the contents of the two boxes into the URL.

even if someone knows how to output one text box into another text box, or something to push me in the right direction.

microsoft/linux · 11-15-2005, 10:00 PM

so...are you trying to make one of these boxes? or are you trying to take the information given to this box, and use it elsewhere?

paul_mat · 11-15-2005, 10:13 PM

that is what the page looks like at the moment

http://www.geocities.com/evilperson85/php-ftp.htm

and if you hover your mouse over the 'login' button in the status part you will see

ftp://$user:$pass@mydomain.com

what i want to do, is enter some data into the two boxes on the page and instead of seeing

ftp://$user:$pass@mydomain.com

i want to see

ftp://[data from first box]:[data from second box]@mydomain.com

microsoft/linux · 11-15-2005, 11:15 PM

ok, I guess I misunderstood what you are trying to do. I don't write PHP, nor do I know anything about it. I'm sorry I can't be of more help, I thought it was a generic FTP question. You might also try asking one of the mods to move this thread to Programming, since that seems to be the type of question you are asking(if I understand correctly)

randyding · 11-15-2005, 11:19 PM

This is one way to do it with a CGI.
Put this shell script in your cgibin directory, call it ftp.cgi and turn on the r-x flags.
Browsing to it should display the form, pressing submit sends the form data to the same script processes the data and outputs a redirect header to your ftp site.

Code:

#!/bin/bash


printform() {
    echo "Content-type: text/html"
    echo ""
    echo "<html>"
    echo "    <head>"
    echo "        <META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Pragma\" CONTENT=\"no-cache\">"
    echo "        <title>FTP</title>"
    echo "    </head>"
    echo "    <body bgcolor=\"#C0C0C0\" text=\"#000000\" link=\"#0000FF\" vlink=\"#C00000\" alink=\"#FFFF00\">"
    echo "        <center><h2>FTP</h2></center>"
    echo "        <form action=\"${1}\" method=\"GET\">"
    echo "            <input type=\"edit\" size=\"16\" name=\"host\" value=\"localhost\">FTP Server Host Name<p>"
    echo "            <input type=\"edit\" size=\"16\" name=\"user\" value=\"anonymous\">User Name<p>"
    echo "            <input type=\"edit\" size=\"64\" name=\"path\" value=\"\">Path<p>"
    echo "            <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Connect\">"
    echo "        </form>"
    echo "    </body>"
    echo "</html>"
}


# arg1: ftphost
# arg2: ftpuser
# arg3: ftppath
#
print_ftp_redirect() {
    local url
    url="ftp://${2}@${1}/${3}"
    echo "Content-type: text/html"
    echo ""
    echo "<html>"
    echo "    <head>"
    echo "        <META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Pragma\" CONTENT=\"no-cache\">"
    echo "        <META HTTP-EQUIV=\"refresh\" CONTENT=\"0;URL=${url}\">"
    echo "        <title>You are being redirected.</title>"
    echo "    </head>"
    echo "    <body bgcolor=\"#C0C0C0\" text=\"#000000\" link=\"#0000FF\" vlink=\"#C00000\" alink=\"#FFFF00\">"
    echo "        <a href=\"${url}\">You are being redirected.</a>"
    echo "    </body>"
    echo "</html>"
}


printerror() {
    echo "Content-type: text/html"
    echo ""
    echo "<html>"
    echo "    <head>"
    echo "        <META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Pragma\" CONTENT=\"no-cache\">"
    echo "        <title>CGI ERROR</title>"
    echo "    </head>"
    echo "    <body bgcolor=\"#C0C0C0\" text=\"#000000\" link=\"#0000FF\" vlink=\"#C00000\" alink=\"#FFFF00\">"
    echo "        <center><h2>CGI ERROR</h2></center>"
    [ $# -gt 0 ] && echo "$@"
    echo "    </body>"
    echo "</html>"
}


if [ "$REQUEST_METHOD" != "GET" ]; then
    printerror "must use GET request method"
    exit 0
fi


if [ -z "$QUERY_STRING" ]; then
    printform "$(basename $0)"
    exit 0
fi


# some default values if not supplied as CGI arguments
ftphost=localhost
ftpuser=anonymous
ftppath=


for arg in $(echo "$QUERY_STRING" | tr '&' ' '); do
    name="${arg%%=*}"
    value="${arg#*=}"
    [ -z "$name" ] && continue
    [ -z "$value" ] && continue
    [ "$name" = "$value" ] && continue
    case "$name" in
        host)
            ftphost="$value"
        ;;

        user)
            ftpuser="$value"
        ;;

        path)
            ftppath="$value"
        ;;
    esac
done


print_ftp_redirect "$ftphost" "$ftpuser" "$ftppath"
exit 0

paul_mat · 11-16-2005, 02:13 AM

thanks, that was just what i was looking for.