From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-10-24T02:36:33+09:00
Subject: Re: mtime for ftp

On Oct 22, 2007, at 12:25 , Peter Bailey wrote:
> Eric Hodel wrote:
>> On Oct 19, 2007, at 10:25 , Peter Bailey wrote:
>>>  puts xmlfile
>>>  puts ftp.mtime(xmlfile)
>>> end
>>> ...
>>>
>>> I get something like this:
>>>
>>> Exception: 500 'MDTM -rw-rw-r--   1 bna      staff      43945 Oct 19
>>> 08:50 lobbyreg-20071010-160009.xml': command not understood.
>>>
>>> Just doing the "puts xmlfile" works fine, just not the mtime thing.
>>
>> I don't think every server supports MDTM.
>
> Thanks. I don't even know what MDTM is. It's obviously part of Ruby's
> ftp, though, isn't it?

Actually, it looks like you're not passing the filename, but are  
passing a bunch of file metadata along with the file's name.

I presume MDTM is the command you send to the FTP server to get it to  
return the modification time, like GET.

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