sebb wrote:
Have you tried any of the Apache mirror sites that offer ftp access?
S.
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 06:55:33 -0600, Steve Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've recently checked in some code to jakarta-commons-net to enable it
to retrieve file listings from FTP servers that do not encode timestamps
in the English notation and/or the American date order, which seems to
be the default by far. But we have had persistent, although infrequent
requests for this functionality and we wanted to grant these requests.
However, I am having a devil of a time finding publicly accessible ftp
servers who encode this way. Over an hour of googling for such strings
as "FTP francais" brought back only servers that encoded in English or
sites I couldn't access. Most seemed to use the American/English
encodings, even if the messages on their server were in French.
Since Jakarta is a very international body, I've decided to cast the net
a little wider than the commons-dev mailing list and ask if anyone can
point me at such servers for more testing of my new code.
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I hadn't tried them, but now that I have tried them it was as I feared.
Sites whose primary mission is serving software engineers seem
invariably to run their ftp sites the "standard" way, that is, in
American English, and the apache mirror sites are no exception. I tried
mirrors in Brazil, Bulgaria, France, Germany, all were the same in this
regard. I've never run a mirror but it seems likely that using a
language for ftp different than that of the site you're mirroring might
create some problems?
It seems that as a rule it is the private (and therefore inaccessible to
me) sites which might possibly customize on language. But surely,
someone on this list knows of an exception to the rule! Please, I need
some publicly accessible FTP sites that run their servers with
timestamps that do not follow the "American English standard".
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