Oct. 24, 2017
10:26 p.m.
Paul Eggert wrote:
I no longer recommend FTP to get tzdb.
HTTPS is fine for retrieving a specific release, but FTP offers a couple of other facilities that AFAICS HTTPS doesn't provide. Specifically, by FTP I can enumerate old releases (NLST on the /tz/releases directory), and I can identify the latest release (by processing the directory listing). I've automated those jobs. Is there a recommended way to do these things through the HTTPS interface? (Scraping a human-oriented web page isn't an attractive approach.) -zefram