On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:

> I tried several ways. None of them worked, but here's the closest
> command I found:
>
> curl --ftp-create-dirs -C - -n ftp://HOST/DIR -v -T FILE

...

>> SIZE FILE
> < 550 Can't check for file existence
> * Couldn't get remote file size

Oh. Perhaps we should allow this operation and just make a 550 reply from the
SIZE command equal "the existing file is zero bytes"...

Can anyone think of any obvious drawbacks with such a change?

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