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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30706 Ftp task unable to get or list ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-08-20 01:33 ------- This is very interesting to me. I've done a lot of the work on the ftp parsing in jakarta-commons-net, which is at the root of ant's ftp task, as you probably know. I have never been happy about the way we handle dates. I know that different servers in different countries handle the dates differently. We've never fixed it because, frankly, I've never been able to get any solid info from developers on non-English systems to find out how prevalent the problem is, and what is the best way to solve it. Hopefully, you'll be willing to share some information with me to help me understand the depth of the problem and how we might solve it. In your experience, in France, do ftp systems use French names for months always, usually, sometimes, or rarely? Are English month names ever, or frequently seen? Do you know much about the situation in other European countries? Do German servers use German names for months? Etc. The core of the problem is being able to tell, from an FTP server that the client knows nothing about, what language to expect the months in. FTP was not originally designed as an automatable protocol and fixing this will not be easy. But I am always eager to find people willing to help solve it from the countries affected. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
