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Re: libcurl FTP - directory listing by file mask

From: <mikep_at_proatria.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:53:16 +0000

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 08:29:39AM -0700, Dan Fandrich wrote:
> curl doesn't need to do any regex parsing or globbing--it would simply
> send the "file name" string as an argument to the NLST command and
> let the remote server handle it in whichever way it desires. The
> inconsistency is that you can't do that for the LIST command as well due
> to the potential ambiguity.

Thanks for the explanaition - I misunderstood how this was implimented. So maybe a quote NLST and nobody option would be worth a look?

Cheers
Mike
Received on 2008-03-28