Cfftp and file's lastModifed question

Question

Using cfftp, is there another way to get a file's
LastModified DT stamp other that using action="listDir"?
I have a scheduled job that hits an ftp server every minute.
The file I'm trying to check is in a folder with a handful of files
that are all constantly updating, and my code intermittently bails
on the "listDIr". My guess is one of the files are being updated at
the moment I'm doing a "listDir", and ColdFusion can't read the
directory and bails.
Thanks for reading,
JB

Answer 1

Using cfftp, is there another way to get a file's LastModified
DT stamp other that using action="listDir"?...The problem is
listDir does more than I need (i.e., gets meta data for everything
in the ftp directory). I just need the modifed DT stamp for one
file. But I can't figure out any other way to get it than to list
the whole directory and parse through that.
I, too, might need such a functionality. Here is something I
found. Download the
free
version of edtFTPj. It is a ZIP file. Extract it. Copy the JAR
file, edtftpj-1.5.2.JAR, to Coldfusion's lib directory (e.g.
c:\cfusionmx7\lib on my machine). Restart Coldfusion, to update it
with the new JAR file.
The code below assumes the following:
FTP server: ftp.juliebread.com
username: BKBK
password: kbkb072
File whose 'last modified date' you need:
ftp://ftp.juliebread.com/testdir1/testdir2/report.xml
For more information, go to the
edtFTPj
website. There you will find information about
the
edtftpj API and, in particular, about the
FTPClient
class.