Re: ftp folder creation date

[aitap]

in reply to ftp folder creation date

That's not so easy. FTP has two ways of transferring file lists: NLST, which transfers only names (and is used in $ftp->ls) and LIST (which can be got using $ftp->dir), which is human-readable and is not described in RFC. The second one can contain the needed dates, but you can have troubles decoding it. (see the RFC 959 for details)

Use Net::FTP::File to get parsed values from LIST command.

[Anonymous Monk]

fstat is listed as a TODO, so not exactly useful

[aitap]

Tried to connect to my own FTP server using a commandline ftp client, couldn't get anything looking like creation date (only modification date was present) even using STAT command.
Now I doubt whether this is possible at all.

[afoken]

Yes, FTP is ugly, in more than one aspect. Things get much worse when the FTP server runs on DOS, Windows or Netware. The "human readable" output often is readable, but far from anything you would expect from an FTP server running on Unix.

baskar_79, could you connect using SSH and use SFTP instead? SFTP has atime/mtime/ctime, since at least version 4 (dated 2002). As a nice side effect, you get encrypted transfers and you could switch from passwords to public key authentication.

Alexander