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Bug #39583 FTP function always transfers in binary mode
Submitted: 2006-11-22 10:29 UTC Modified: 2006-11-24 12:40 UTC
From: ts dot serveroperations at wmdata dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: FTP related
PHP Version: 4.4.4 OS: Redhat Enterprise ES version 4
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2006-11-22 10:29 UTC] ts dot serveroperations at wmdata dot com
Description:
------------
The ftp function always transfer files in binary mode which results in textfiles being corrupted with no newlines.

The configure line we used is 
./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql --enable-module=so --enable-ftp

We have not made any changes to php.ini.

We tested on both the latest CVS snapshot and PHP 4.4.4

The code below expects a file named testfile.txt to be located in /var/www/html/ and a ftp server on localhost with user test, password test, address localhost and a folder named testdir. When we look in the logfile of the ftp server we see that the file actually was transferred in binary mode, we tried 2 different ftp servers with the same result.

The ftp server and webserver are on the same machine (Linux Redhat), the php page is browsed from a windows XP computer and testfile.txt is downloaded and viewed in windows XP with notepad.

This bug resembles Bug #19036 but this is between windows and linux which uses different newline characters. Therefore we must use ascii mode.

Reproduce code:
---------------
<?php

// set up basic connection
$ftp_server = "localhost";
$ftp_user_name = "test";
$ftp_user_pass = "test";


$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);

// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);

// check connection
if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) {
       echo "FTP connection has failed!";
       echo "Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user $ftp_user_name";
       exit;
   } else {
       echo "Connected to $ftp_server, for user $ftp_user_name";
   }

$source_file = "/var/www/html/testfile.txt";
$destination_file = "/testdir/testfile.txt";

// upload the file
$upload = ftp_put($conn_id, $destination_file, $source_file, FTP_ASCII);

// check upload status
if (!$upload) {
       echo "FTP upload has failed!";
   } else {
       echo "Uploaded $source_file to $ftp_server as $destination_file";
   }

// close the FTP stream
ftp_close($conn_id);
?>


Expected result:
----------------
That the file was transferred in ascii mode and that the ftp server logfile would confirm that.

Actual result:
--------------
The file was transferred in binary mode. This was verified when opening the textfile and the newlines are gone, replaced by 3 squares. Also the ftp server logfile states that the transfer was in binary mode.

This is true for both uploads and downloads.

FTP server works as expected when using a regular ftp application e.g. flashfxp, filezilla etc.

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 [2006-11-22 11:18 UTC] tony2001@php.net
>downloaded and viewed in windows XP with notepad.
Please get a decent TXT viewer instead of notepad.
AFAIK it was never able to display Unix line endings properly.

Does your FTP server understand "TYPE A" command?
 [2006-11-22 13:36 UTC] ts dot serveroperations at wmdata dot com
We need to be able to use notepad. However the unix like endings works if the transfer mode is set to ascii.


If we run "TYPE ASCII" or just "ASCII" the server responds with:
200 Type set to A.

The problem is not that we use notepad, the problem is that all transfers is in binary mode, even if we state FTP_ASCII in the ftp_put or ftp_get functions.
 [2006-11-22 13:47 UTC] tony2001@php.net
Is it possible to get a log of this FTP session to see what exactly is passed to the server and what was its response?
 [2006-11-22 15:18 UTC] ts dot serveroperations at wmdata dot com
This is the transferlog from the ftpserver:
Wed Nov 22 15:08:25 2006 0 drops 83 /site/tempdir/testfile.txt b _ i r temp ftp 0 *

The ftp server is glftpd 2.01 for i386 Linux

We sniffed the transfer using tcpdump, here's the output, sorry that it is in HEX but we cut off all numbers to reduce linesize, but it is still readable and you can make out 150.Opening.BINARY.mode:




547369717(0) win 32767 <mss 16396,sackOK,timestamp 2440911661 0,nop,wscale 2>
..............E.
.<..@.@.p.......
.......p........
........@......}
[-........
536371407(0) ack 3547369718 win 32767<mss 16396,sackOK,timestamp 2440911661 2440911661,nop,wscale 2>
..............E.
.<..@.@.<.......
...........p....
..5x....@......}
[-.}[-....
92 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911661 2440911661>
..............E.
.4..@.@.p.......
.......p........
...........}[-.}
[-
3538374111(0) win 32767 <mss 16396,sackOK,timestamp 2440911716 0,nop,wscale 2>
..............E.
.<..@.@.%.......
.....q..M.......
........@......}
[d........
3538374112 win 0
..............E.
.(..@.@.0.......
...q........M.P.
......
 1 win 8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911721 2440911661>
..............E.
.l..@.@.V|......
...........p....
...`.......}[i.}
[-220.localhost.
Dropsite..(glFTP
192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911721 2440911721>
..............E.
.4..@.@.p.......
.......p........
...........}[i.}
[i
 57 win 8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911722 2440911721>
..............E.
.?..@.@.p.......
.......p........
...3.......}[j.}
[iUSER.temp..
192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911722 2440911722>
..............E.
.4..@.@.V.......
...........p....
...........}[j.}
[j
k 12 win 8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911728 2440911722>
..............E.
.U..@.@.V.......
...........p....
...I.......}[p.}
[j331.Password.r
equired.for.temp
k 90 win 8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911728 2440911728>
..............E.
.?..@.@.p.......
.......p.....)..
...3.......}[p.}
[pPASS.temp..
ack 23 win 8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911736 2440911728>
..............E.
....@.@.T.......
.........).p....
...........}[x.}
[p230-..........
................
8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911776 2440911736>
..............E.
.4..@.@.p.......
.......p........
...........}[..}
[x
 ack 23 win 8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911782 2440911776>
..............E.
....@.@.U.......
...........p....
...........}[..}
[.230-.`-=------
----------------
8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911782 2440911782>
..............E.
.4..@.@.p.......
.......p........
...........}[..}
[.
k 711 win 8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911783 2440911782>
..............E.
.L..@.@.p.......
.......p........
...@.......}[..}
[.PORT.127,0,0,1
,138,186..
ack 47 win 8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911787 2440911783>
..............E.
.R..@.@.V.......
...........p.$..
...F.......}[..}
[.200.PORT.comma
nd.successful...
k 741 win 8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911787 2440911787>
..............E.
.P..@.@.p.......
.......p.$......
...D.......}[..}
[.STOR./tempdir/
testfile.txt..
:3545163343(0) win 32767 <mss 16396,sackOK,timestamp 2440911791 0,nop,wscale 2>
..............E.
.<..@.@.~.......
..1....N.O......
..,R....@......}
[.........
:3537573975(0) ack 3545163344 win 32767 <mss 16396,sackOK,timestamp 2440911791 2440911791,nop,wscale 2>
..............E.
.<..@.@.<.......
....1....W.N.P..
..S.....@......}
[..}[.....
8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911791 2440911791>
..............E.
.4..@.@.~.......
..1....N.P...X..
...........}[..}
[.
ack 75 win 8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911795 2440911787>
..............E.
.o..@.@.Vm......
...........p.@..
...c.......}[..}
[.150.Opening.BI
NARY.mode.data.c
ck 1 win 8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911795 2440911791>
..............E.
..C.@.@..w......
....1....X.N.P..
...{.......}[..}
[.blasdjknas..q.
.dqw..dwe......f
 8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911795 2440911795>
..............E.
.4..@.@.~.......
..1....N.P......
...........}[..}
[.
ck 1 win 8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911795 2440911795>
..............E.
.4C.@.@.........
....1......N.P..
...........}[..}
[.
 85 win 8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911800 2440911795>
..............E.
.4..@.@.~.......
..1....N.P......
...........}[..}
[.
8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911800 2440911800>
..............E.
.4C.@.@.........
....1......N.Q..
...........}[..}
[.
8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911835 2440911795>
..............E.
.4..@.@.p.......
.......p.@......
...........}[..}
[.
 ack 75 win 8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911838 2440911835>
..............E.
....@.@.V/......
...........p.@..
...........}[..}
[.226-.[Ul:.0.0M
B].[Dl:.0.0MB].[
8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911838 2440911838>
..............E.
.4..@.@.p.......
.......p.@...f..
...T.......}[..}
[.
 919 win 8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911838 2440911838>
..............E.
.:..@.@.p.......
.......p.@...f..
...........}[..}
[.QUIT..
ack 81 win 8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911847 2440911838>
..............E.
.B..@.@.V.......
.........f.p.F..
...6.......}[..}
[.221-.Goodbye..
ack 81 win 8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911851 2440911838>
..............E.
.:..@.@.V.......
.........t.p.F..
...........}[..}
[.221...
 940 win 8192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911851 2440911847>
..............E.
.4..@.@.p.......
.......p.F...{..
...".......}[..}
[.
192 <nop,nop,timestamp 2440911851 2440911851>
..............E.
.4..@.@.V.......
.........{.p.G..
...........}[..}
[.
 [2006-11-22 15:50 UTC] tony2001@php.net
That's right, the default mode is binary, but I don't see any TYPE commands in your log. 
The ftp_put() function first sends "TYPE <type>" command and STOR after that.
Can you trace it in gdb and set a breakpoint on "ftp_put" and "ftp_type" functions to see how exactly they are executed?
 [2006-11-23 15:30 UTC] ts dot serveroperations at wmdata dot com
Is this what you wanted? I just breaked at the breakpoints, didn't do any steps. I did this in command-line php. I recompiled PHP (CVS version) with the following configure:

./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql --enable-module=so --enable-ftp --enable-debug


If you want I can redo it with php 4.4.4.


# gdb /usr/local/bin/php
GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.1post-1.20040607.62rh)
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) break ftp_put
Breakpoint 1 at 0x807bd51: file /usr/local/src/php4-STABLE-200611211330/ext/ftp/ftp.c, line 759.
(gdb) break ftp_type
Breakpoint 2 at 0x807abc4: file /usr/local/src/php4-STABLE-200611211330/ext/ftp/ftp.c, line 539.
(gdb) run /var/www/html/mupp/index.php
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/php /var/www/html/mupp/index.php
Connected to localhost, for user temp
Breakpoint 1, ftp_put (ftp=0x8628d1c, path=0x8628bfc "/tempdir/testfile.txt", instream=0x8625f4c, type=FTPTYPE_ASCII, startpos=140656052)
    at /usr/local/src/php4-STABLE-200611211330/ext/ftp/ftp.c:759
759     {
(gdb) c
Continuing.

Breakpoint 2, ftp_type (ftp=0x0, type=140656052) at /usr/local/src/php4-STABLE-200611211330/ext/ftp/ftp.c:539
539     {
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Uploaded /var/www/html/testfile.txt to localhost as /tempdir/testfile.txt

Program exited normally.
(gdb)
 [2006-11-24 12:40 UTC] tony2001@php.net
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
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