System.Net.FtpWebRequest GetDateTimestamp example

.net, ftp, ftpwebrequest

Solution

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);
}

Problem

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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