GET Ftp File function

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posted by Sylvain LESIRE

01-06-2009

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GET Ftp File function

function Get-FTPFile ($Source,$Target,$UserName,$Password) 
{ 
 
# Create a FTPWebRequest object to handle the connection to the ftp server 
$ftprequest = [System.Net.FtpWebRequest]::create($Source) 
 
# set the request's network credentials for an authenticated connection 
$ftprequest.Credentials = 
    New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($username,$password) 
 
$ftprequest.Method = [System.Net.WebRequestMethods+Ftp]::DownloadFile 
$ftprequest.UseBinary = $true 
$ftprequest.KeepAlive = $false 
 
# send the ftp request to the server 
$ftpresponse = $ftprequest.GetResponse() 
 
# get a download stream from the server response 
$responsestream = $ftpresponse.GetResponseStream() 
 
# create the target file on the local system and the download buffer 
$targetfile = New-Object IO.FileStream ($Target,[IO.FileMode]::Create) 
[byte[]]$readbuffer = New-Object byte[] 1024 
 
# loop through the download stream and send the data to the target file 
do{ 
    $readlength = $responsestream.Read($readbuffer,0,1024) 
    $targetfile.Write($readbuffer,0,$readlength) 
} 
while ($readlength -ne 0) 
 
$targetfile.close() 
} 
 
$sourceuri = "ftp://MyFtpServer/FolderPath\File.txt" 
$targetpath = "C:\temp\MyFile.txt" 
$user = "Username" 
$pass = "Password" 
Get-FTPFile $sourceuri $targetpath $user $pass 

This script show you how to Get File from a FTP Server.

This script was a modification from a script find on :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/265339/whats-the-best-way-to-automate-secure-ftp-in-powershell

You can use SSL on your script by using

$ftprequest.EnableSsl = $true # line 15 Wink