Sorry... My bad.

The -Z (uppercase) is an invalid option. The -z (lowercase) always
retrieves the file regardless of the date/time of the target filename
following the -z option.

-Mike-

-----Original Message-----
From: curl-users-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se
[mailto:curl-users-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Dan Fandrich
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 3:55 PM
To: curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se
Subject: Re: Does the -Z option work when using FTP with cURL?

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 03:40:12PM -0600, Mike Maynard wrote:
> I have been using cURL for 2 years to automatically download a weekly
> file from an HTTPS server. I use the -Z option and cURL detects the
> new file and downloads the file. This has been working very well.
>
> 2 weeks ago the file was moved to an FTP server. According to the man

> pages, the -Z option only works with HTTP.

It looks like the code is actually there to support -z for FTP (although
the command used to obtain the file time may not be supported by all
server).
Have you tried it? The documentation probably needs to be updated.

>>> Dan

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