System.Net.FtpWebRequest GetDateTimestamp example

Question

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

Answer 1

Something like this:

DateTime DateValue;    

FtpWebRequest Request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(yourUri);
Request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.GetDateTimestamp;
Request.UseBinary = false;

using (FtpWebResponse Response = (FtpWebResponse)Request.GetResponse())
using (TextReader Reader = new StringReader(Response.StatusDescription))
{
    string DateString = Reader.ReadLine().Substring(4);
    DateValue = DateTime.ParseExact(DateString, "yyyyMMddHHmmss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.DateTimeFormat);
}