Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Timothy Roughton wrote:
>
>> Thanks, don't suppose LIST -aL will be of any use
>
> First "-aL" is highly system-specific and will only work on some servers.
>
> Then, LIST is highly system-specific in the sense that its output format
> is not standardized anywhere so two different servers can output the
> directory list in any way it thinks look good.
>
>> my local proftpd server doesn't support those commands, but the remote
>> test server I'm using does, trouble I don't want to hammer that with
>> prototype ftp code because I don't own it.
>
> FTP really is messy protocol...
>
> (related: http://daniel.haxx.se/docs/ftp-vs-http.html is my take at
> comparing FTP with HTTP)

Messy!? that's got to be an understatement!
Received on 2008-11-17