[vox-tech] Net::FTP - filesize difference

[Peter Jay Salzman]

Remote site:

   150 Here comes the directory listing.
   -rw-r--r--    1 504      507      204942095 Aug 07 19:58 bvd.zip
   drwxrwxrwx    2 504      0           16384 Aug 05 16:00 lost+found
   226 Directory send OK.


My code:

   sub downloadFile()
   {
      use vars qw( %props );

      my $ftp = Net::FTP->new( $props->{'ftp.hostname'}, Debug => DEBUG )
         or die "Cannot connect to some.host.name: $@";
      $ftp->binary();

      $ftp->login( $props->{'ftp.username'}, $props->{'ftp.password'} )
         or die "Cannot login ", $ftp->message;
      $ftp->get( $props->{'ftp.filename'} )
         or die "get failed ", $ftp->message;

      $ftp->quit;
   }


The problem:

   The downloaded file appears to be either truncated or corrupted.

   When I download the file by hand, the size is correct and the file is
   uncorrupted.  However, when I download the file using Perl, the file size
   is smaller than what it should be.

   -rw-rw-r--  1 qfa qfr 204939227 Aug 11 17:24 bvd.zip.byPerl
   -rw-rw-r--  1 qfa qfr 204942095 Aug 11 17:15 bvd.zip.byhand

Any ideas what could be happening?

Thanks!
Pete