FTP Server -- Simple featureless FTP server

This is a very simple FTP server. At first it's aimed to simply provide a full-Node implementation of FTP server to be embedded for Unit Testing purpose.

It's currently highly experimental and could crash anytime. It could become a real FTP server if you want to contribute a bit ;) Don't be afraid: FTP protocol is quite simple.

Install

# Using NPM
npm install ftp-server

Or from source:

# Install from sources...
git clone git://github.com/naholyr/node-ftp-server.git ftp-server
cd ftp-server
npm link

# ...Then in your project
npm link ftp-server

You can run unit tests:

# From your project where ftp-server has been installed as a module
npm test ftp-server

# Or directly from ftp-server
npm test

Usage

Example: Simply serve a given directory:

var ftpd = require('ftp-server')
// Path to your FTP root
ftpd.fsOptions.root = '/path/to/ftp-root'
// Start listening on port 21 (you need to be root for ports < 1024)
ftpd.listen(21)

Extend server

Just look at the code. I'll fully document the ways to extend the server with additional features when it's at least more stable.

Paternity

Note that the original implementation I based my work on was @billywhizz 's from GitHub.

Roadmap

• Add support for rename commands
• Better implementation of LIST and NLST to be cross-platform
• Add support for REST command (restart an interrupted download)
• Maybe wrap all this stuff in a class or at least a function with options (like what FS we'll use)
• Add better documentation on how to extend server (add "features") or new FS wrappers
• Implement MemoryFS
• Support authentication from config or even from database
• Implement all the RFCs from FTP protocol

License: MIT

Copyright (C) 2012 Nicolas Chambrier

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