Getting the file size from a FTP Server

Hi,

I want to get a file size from an FTP server.

I can use this method because the ftp server doesn't support this command:

WebRequestMethods.Ftp.GetFileSize

So i decided to get the file size in this way:

FtpWebRequest myReq = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(ftp://ftp.ftp.ftp/);

myReq.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.ListDirectoryDetails;

Stream s = myReq.GetResponse().GetResponseStream();

StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(s);

MessageBox.Show(reader.ReadToEnd());

My question is how can i get, just the file size, and not all the string...

I don't want to split my string to an array and getting from the array the file size because i don't want to lose performance...

Help me...

Hawkmoth
I dont think there is a way out except for parsing the response from the server
jiggs
This isn't my problem...

My problem is how can i get from this repsonse only the file size
Krixna

I tried the following sample and I could get just the file
that I am interested in. Thatway you don't need to parse through
n number of entries and get the size of the file

May be this would help

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;

public class Test
{
public static void Main()
{
  FtpWebRequest myReq = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("ftp://192.168.0.2/adsutil.vbs");
  myReq.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.ListDirectoryDetails;
  myReq.UsePassive = false;
  Stream s = myReq.GetResponse().GetResponseStream();
  StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(s);
  Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd());
  s.Close();
  reader.Close();
}
}
Getting the file size from a FTP Server