System.Net.FtpWebRequest GetDateTimestamp example

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Dav Evans picture Dav Evans · Jun 24, 2009 · Viewed 19.3k times · Source

I'm looking for a short bit of sample code which uses the System.Net.FtpWebRequest namespace to get the timestamp of a specified remote file on an ftp server. I know I need to set the Method property of my request object to WebRequestMethods.Ftp.GetDateTimestamp but I'm not sure how to get the response back into a System.DateTime object.

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Dav Evans picture Dav Evans · Jun 26, 2009

Yep - thats pretty much what I ended up with. I went with something like this

request = FtpWebRequest.Create("ftp://ftp.whatever.com/somefile.txt");

request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.GetDateTimestamp;
request.Proxy = null;

using (FtpWebResponse resp = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
{
        Console.WriteLine(resp.LastModified);
}

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