Classic ASP

Get a Remote FTP File's Creation Time by Name

Demonstrates the Chilkat Ftp2.GetCreateTimeByNameStr method, which returns the creation time of a named item in the current remote directory as an RFC 822 date-time string. The only argument is the filename.

Background: Creation time is the least commonly supported of the timestamps — many servers report only the modification time — so treat an empty or missing result as "not available" rather than an error. Where it is provided, it is useful precisely because it does not change when a file is edited.

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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<%
success = 0

'  Demonstrates the Ftp2.GetCreateTimeByNameStr method, which returns the creation time of a named
'  item in the current remote directory as an RFC 822 date-time string.  The only argument is the
'  filename.

set ftp = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Ftp2")

ftp.Hostname = "ftp.example.com"
ftp.Username = "myFtpLogin"

'  Normally you would not hard-code the password in source.  You should instead obtain it
'  from an interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
ftp.Password = "myPassword"

success = ftp.Connect()
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( ftp.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

success = ftp.ChangeRemoteDir("public_html")
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( ftp.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  Not all servers report a creation time.
createTime = ftp.GetCreateTimeByNameStr("report.pdf")
If (ftp.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( ftp.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Created: " & createTime) & "</pre>"

success = ftp.Disconnect()
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( ftp.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If


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