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| From | Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.acorn.programmer |
| Subject | Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? |
| Date | 2011-05-20 21:45 +0100 |
| Organization | home |
| Message-ID | <67d683d651.rogerarm@rogerarm.freeuk.com> (permalink) |
| References | <e3d16bd651.rogerarm@rogerarm.freeuk.com> <mpro.lligcx003wvus01lk@wingsandbeaks.org.uk.invalid> |
On 20 May 2011, Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote: > Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> wrote: >> >> Has anyone written, or know of, a program that will compare the >> filesizes of files on a local copy of a website, with that on the >> website itself. >> >> It has, in the past, been claimed that this is not possible. But to >> me, on my website, it looks eminently possible, because using FTPc I >> can see the filesizes of the files on the website itself. > A server that allows FTP access to a directory holding files is not the same > thing as "a website". Webservers often do not allow access to file > directories. > Even when you upload files to a webserver using FTP, the place you upload > them to is - in some cases - a virtual directory from which the server moves > the files to their required final position. > In general if you ask about a program to see files on a website, people will > assume you mean "any website". It seems that what you mean is your own > website, which is altogether a different thing, as you know the location and > access password for it... Yes, it is for my website. > Does FTPc allow one to save a directory list? It does, but I have to go into that directory to get the list with filesizes, and when there are hundreds of (nested) directories that would be a laborious process to do manually. > I'm not sure about RO, but it's possible that under eg Windows that an ftp > specification of a directory can be used as a target for a dir to be > investigated (by any disk scanning tool) in much the same way that network > shares can be. -- Cheers Roger If you collect them, then, one day - you'll have a lot.
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a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2011-05-20 17:23 +0100
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2011-05-20 21:17 +0100
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2011-05-20 21:45 +0100
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2011-05-20 22:49 +0100
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2011-05-22 07:28 +0100
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2011-05-22 13:28 +0100
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2011-05-22 16:19 +0100
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some webs jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk (Jonathan Graham Harston) - 2011-05-22 17:30 +0100
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some webs Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2011-05-24 14:36 +0100
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2011-05-21 10:29 +0100
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Andrew Hodgkinson <ahodgkin@rowing.org.uk> - 2011-05-21 10:39 +0100
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2011-05-21 13:13 +0100
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-05-22 03:37 +0200
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2011-05-22 07:17 +0100
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2011-05-22 09:45 +0200
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2011-05-22 10:31 +0100
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2011-05-22 12:57 +0200
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-05-24 01:11 +0200
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2011-05-24 17:30 +0100
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-05-24 01:03 +0200
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2011-05-22 16:41 +0100
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-05-24 00:57 +0200
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2011-05-24 14:14 +0100
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2011-05-22 18:54 +0100
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2011-05-23 07:08 +0100
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? jgharston <jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk> - 2011-05-23 08:01 -0700
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-05-24 01:44 +0200
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some webs jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk (Jonathan Graham Harston) - 2011-05-29 23:49 +0100
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some webs Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-05-30 12:11 +0200
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some webs Frank de Bruijn <zuiderduin@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-31 07:45 +0200
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some webs Frank de Bruijn <zuiderduin@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-31 07:38 +0200
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-05-29 20:50 +1200
Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Ron Briscoe <ron.briscoe@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2011-05-29 16:26 +0100
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