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Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites?

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From Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com>
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Subject Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites?
Date Sun, 22 May 2011 07:28:02 +0100
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On 20 May 2011, Roger Darlington  wrote:
> On 20 May 2011, Jeremy Nicoll - news posts  wrote:
>> Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> wrote:


>>> 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.

So what is FTPc seeing when I look with it (on my website) when it 
tells me the filesizes of the files in any particular directory? If 
the size it reports is not the size of the files on the website, then 
isn't something drastically wrong somewhere?

I can only assume that FTPc is telling me the correct sizes of the 
files on my website (whether or not it is actually looking at some 
virtual copy somewhere). In which case, I should be able to knock up a 
program on my local computer which uses FTPc (or cURL or somesuch) to 
read the filesizes.

Unless, of course, someone has already knocked up a program to do 
this, that they would be willing to lend me...

-- 

Cheers
Roger
If you start nowhere, you'll finish up in the same place

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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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