Please keep this on the list.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 03 Apr 2003 18:10:14 +0200
To: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Subject: Re: [ curl-Bugs-714667 ] curl -z ./local.bz2 -O ftp://remote.bz2
    does not work
Hi Daniel
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 17:20, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, SourceForge.net wrote:
>
...
> curl -z ./mozilla-source.tar.bz2 -O
> > ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-source.tar.bz2
> >
...
> Well, it all boils down to what the FTP sever supports and responds. Can you
> run a --trace-ascii and tell us exactly what kind of interaction curl does
> with the FTP server in the second command invoke?
>
> The MDTM command used for getting a time and date of a specific file over FTP
> is 1. not a standard RFC959 command and 2. not very cleverly added since it
> lacks time zone info.
>
> Thus, this failure may be due to a bug in curl, or simply because the server
> doesn't support the MDTM command or possibly because curl fails to do a
After performing:
curl --trace-ascii curl.log -R -z local.html -O
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-source.tar.bz2
I attached the essential (I hope) part of curl.log to this mail. Then I
made in the same directory:
wget -N
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-source.tar.bz2
and got after some seconds:
--18:00:47--
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-source.tar.bz2
           => `.listing'
Resolving ftp.mozilla.org... done.
Connecting to ftp.mozilla.org[207.200.85.49]:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/mozilla/nightly/latest ... done.
==> PORT ... done.    ==> LIST ... done.
    [
<=>                                                                                     ] 2,697        658.45K/s
18:00:49 (658.45 KB/s) - `.listing' saved [2697]
Removed `.listing'.
Remote file no newer than local file `mozilla-source.tar.bz2' -- not
retrieving.
So 'wget' behaves like I expected. So perhaps you can include this
feature or method of time determination use by wget into curl.
	Regards
		Juergen
-- 
Juergen Rose <rose_at_rz.uni-potsdam.de>
Max-Delbrueck-Zentrum

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