ftpgetinfo.c

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
 
#include <curl/curl.h>
 
/* <DESC>
 * Checks a single file's size and mtime from an FTP server.
 * </DESC>
 */
 
static size_t throw_away(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *data)
{
  (void)ptr;
  (void)data;
  /* we are not interested in the headers itself,
     so we only return the size we would have saved ... */
  return (size_t)(size * nmemb);
}
 
int main(void)
{
  char ftpurl[] = "ftp://ftp.example.com/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.19.1.tar.bz2";
  CURL *curl;
  CURLcode res;
  long filetime = -1;
  curl_off_t filesize = 0;
  const char *filename = strrchr(ftpurl, '/') + 1;
 
  curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT);
 
  curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, ftpurl);
    /* No download if the file */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1L);
    /* Ask for filetime */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FILETIME, 1L);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, throw_away);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0L);
    /* Switch on full protocol/debug output */
    /* curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1L); */
 
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
 
    if(CURLE_OK == res) {
      /* https://curl.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_getinfo.html */
      res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_FILETIME, &filetime);
      if((CURLE_OK == res) && (filetime >= 0)) {
        time_t file_time = (time_t)filetime;
        printf("filetime %s: %s", filename, ctime(&file_time));
      }
      res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD_T,
                              &filesize);
      if((CURLE_OK == res) && (filesize>0))
        printf("filesize %s: %" CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T " bytes\n",
               filename, filesize);
    }
    else {
      /* we failed */
      fprintf(stderr, "curl told us %d\n", res);
    }
 
    /* always cleanup */
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
 
  curl_global_cleanup();
 
  return 0;
}

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