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I have seen some of the FTP posts, but none seem to be quite what I'm looking for. I want to be able to query the McAfee FTP/HTTP DAT sites to see if there is a newer DAT available. Only query, nothing else.
The FTPGet() UDF actually retrieves the file, plus you need to know the name of the file to get. I would only know that the file will be something like "dat-XXXX.zip". Where XXXX is the DAT version. To determine whether it is newer I plan on comparing that to the DAT I currently have to see if it's newer.
I was looking at the OS built in FTP, but it seems a bit cumbersome and I don't know if that FTP can return the exist or not exist to Kix.
This could also be done using McAfee's HTTP site, but I'm not sure how that would be done either. I've toyed with the wget program, but again that will retrieve the file, which I don't want to do.
Would it be easier if I just retrieved the file to a temp location and then do the compare? Or if anyone knows of a way to query without the retrieve I would greatly appreciate it.
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