Please CC: any answers to my email address, since I'm not on this list. I'd like wget to get the time stamp of a file that is downloaded via FTP and to set the mtime after writing the file to the local disk.
When using HTTP, this already happens, i.e. when doing a wget http://host/file the file has the same time stamp in the local file system as on the remote server, but not with FTP. FTP supports the MODTIME command to get the time stamp of a file from the server. Could wget be changed to use this? urs