Re: question on urlwrite ftp request.

[Michael D. Godfrey]

On 2/21/10 2:50 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On recente source build on cygwin, I noticed that
> urlwrite is working for http but not for ftp,
> and the output is puzzling.
>
> octave:5>  [S, SUCCESS, MESSAGE] = urlread 
> ("ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/README";)
> S =
> SUCCESS = 0
> MESSAGE = No error
>
> octave:6>  S = urlread ("ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/README";)
> error: urlread: curl: No error
>
> It seems a mismatch between octave format expectation
> and curl output. Anyone see it on other platform ?
>
> Regards
> Marco
>
>    
On current build on Fedora fc12 I get the same:
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octave:1> [S, SUCCESS, MESSAGE] = urlread 
("ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/README";)
S =
SUCCESS = 0
MESSAGE = No error

Michael