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Posted: **Fri May 25, 2012 6:06 pm**

Good afternoon,
I'm trying to get the date and time when a text file was updated in a given directory located on a remote server.
I read all of a previous post titled "Help ! Unable to acquire FTP file list!" dated March 1st, 2012, as I thought that the question raised was very similar to mine, but I am not familiar enough with the ftp commands.
I thought that the following line would do the job:
get libURLftpCommand("LIST","ftp.myHostName/DirectoryName","myUserID","myPass")
but I was only able to get a message: "425 Unable to build data connection: Invalid argument".
Would anyone know how to do this ?

Posted: **Fri May 25, 2012 7:49 pm**

Give this a try:

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get liburlftpcommand("ls","ftp.myHostName/DirectoryName","myUserID","myPass")

The "LIST" ftp command is a bit of a problem, as it requires setting up a secondary port. See

http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php? ... ftp#p52783

Posted: **Fri May 25, 2012 10:42 pm**

Thank you for your comment.
Actually, the link that you indicate is the post that I have already quoted in my previous message (titled: "Help ! Unable to acquire FTP file list") . And although I read it carefully several times (and may be because english is not my mother language), I could not find the keys to how to obtain the file update date and time that I need !
The "ls" command in liburlftpcommand only gives me the following reply: "500 LS not understood"
Well, I'm still stuck !…

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 2:23 pm**

No solutions?
Should I post a bug report?

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 2:38 pm**

LIST is the only command that is guaranteed to work on all FTP servers.. You are getting the error about no open data port because you need to connect to the server, using another port, to receive the file listing.. I believe the liburlsetftplistcommand does everything for you, but I never used the built-in FTP as there are limitations with it..

https://livecode.com/resources/api/#liv ... istcommand

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 6:53 pm**

Hi,

this usually works for me:

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    put "ftp://" & myUSR & ":" & myPAS \
             & "@" & myDir into myURL
       libURLSetFTPListCommand "LIST"
       put URL myURL into myVar

You may want to urlEncode myPas before.

Have fun!

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