> FTP directory parsing is a somewhat arcane art to do portably for all
> FTP servers, especially when the FTP server isn't unix.

If libcurl was enhanced to use the MLSD and MLST FTP commands defined in
RFC 3659:

  http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3659.html

then the parsing of the returned data, including file attributes such as
timestamps and such, would be much easier. Perhaps such MLSD/MLST support
could be the building block for this wildcard matching feature?

Cheers,
TJ

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