On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Wei Weng wrote:

> Since I am such a newbie to libcurl, how do I get the FTP directory listing?

Use an FTP URL that ends with slash, like: ftp://host.com/directory/name/

> Should I issue a "LIST" command?

That will make it use LIST. If you rather have it do NLST, you can it do that
by setting CURLOPT_FTPLISTONLY or using CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST.

> And if that is way to do it, how do I get the content returned by "LIST"
> command?

The same way you get contents from any URL, you specify and code your own
write callback.

FTP directory listings are server-specific, there is no standardized format
what it should look like. You need a clever directory parser function for
this, like D. Bernstein's ftpparse: http://cr.yp.to/ftpparse.html

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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