Thanks for the reply.

This helpful but seems clumsy to have to parse the header for the result, however I will go with it for my initial work.

In addition to this is there anyway I can get a precise last write timestamp of a file on the FTP server.

Thanks again,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se
[mailto:curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se]On Behalf Of Daniel Stenberg
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 12:55 PM
To: libcurl development
Subject: Re: FTP SIZE Command

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Michael Smith wrote:

> I would like to use libcurl to retrieve files from an ftp server. I want to
> be able to get the file size from the server first. Using CURLOPT_QUOTE, I
> am able to correctly request the size, but I am not able to actually get
> access to the buffer containing the size.
>
> How can I do this?

All FTP "replies" are passed on to the header function callback:

   http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html#CURLOPTHEADERFUNCTION

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