Dear all,

I have a problem with the command 'getURL' from the RCurl package, which I
have been using to obtain a ftp directory list from the MOD16 (ET, DSI)
products, and then to  download them. (part of the script by Tomislav
Hengl, spatial-analyst). Instead of the list of files (from ftp), I am
getting the complete html code. Anyone knows why this might happen?

This are the steps i have been doing:

> MOD16A2.doy<- '
ftp://ftp.ntsg.umt.edu/pub/MODIS/Mirror/MOD16/MOD16A2.105_MERRAGMAO/'

> items <- strsplit(getURL(MOD16A2.doy,
.opts=curlOptions(ftplistonly=TRUE)), "\n")[[1]]

>items #results

[1] "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\" \"
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd\">\n<!-- HTML listing generated by
Squid 2.7.STABLE9 -->\n<!-- Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:43:53 GMT
-->\n<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>\nFTP Directory:
ftp://ftp.ntsg.umt.edu/pub/MODIS/Mirror/MOD16/MOD16A2.105_MERRAGMAO/\n</TITLE>\n<STYLE
type=\"text/css\"><!--BODY{background-color:#ffffff;font-family:verdana,sans-serif}--></STYLE>\n</HEAD><BODY>\n<H2>\nFTP
Directory: <A HREF=\"/\">ftp://ftp.ntsg.umt.edu</A>/<A
HREF=\"/pub/\">pub</A>/<A HREF=\"/pub/MODIS/\">MODIS</A>/<A
HREF=\"/pub/MODIS/Mirror/\">Mirror</A>/<A
HREF=\"/pub/MODIS/Mirror/MOD16/\">MOD16</A>/<A
HREF=\"/pub/MODIS/Mirror/MOD16/MOD16A2.105_MERRAGMAO/\">MOD16A2.105_MERRAGMAO</A>/</H2>\n<PRE>\n<A
HREF=\"../\"><IMG border=\"0\" SRC=\"
http://localhost:3128/squid-internal-static/icons/anthony-dirup.gif\"
ALT=\"[DIRUP]\"></A> <A HREF=\"../\">Parent Directory</A> \n<A
HREF=\"GEOTIFF_0.05degree/\"><IMG border=\"0\" SRC=\"
http://localhost:3128/squid-internal-static/icons/anthony-dir.gif\"
ALT=\"[DIR] \"></A> <A HREF=\"GEOTIFF_0.05degree/\">GEOTIFF_0.05degree</A>
. . . . . . . Jun  3 18:00        \n<A HREF=\"GEOTIFF_0.5degree/\"><IMG
border=\"0\" SRC=\"
http://localhost:3128/squid-internal-static/icons/anthony-dir.gif\"
ALT=\"[DIR] \"></A> <A HREF=\"GEOTIFF_0.5degree/\">GEOTIFF_0.5degree</A>. .
. . . . . . Jun  3 18:01        \n<A HREF=\"Y2000/\"><IMG border=\"0\"
SRC=\"http://localhost:3128/squid-internal-static/icons/anthony-dir.gif\"
ALT=\"[DIR] \"></A> <A HREF=\"Y2000/\">Y2000</A>. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dec 23  2010        \n<A HREF=\"Y2001/\"><IMG border=\"0\" SRC=\"
http://localhost:3128/squid-internal-static/icons/anthony-dir.gif\"
ALT=\"[DIR] \"></A> <A HREF=\"Y2001/\">Y2001</A>. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dec 23  2010        \n<A HREF=\"Y2002/\"><IMG border=\"0\" SRC=\"
http://localhost:3128/squid-internal-static/icons/anthony-dir.gif\"
ALT=\"[DIR] \"></A> <A HREF=\"Y2002/\">Y2002</A>. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dec 23  2010        \n<A HREF=\"Y2003/\"><IMG border=\"0\" SRC=\"
http://localhost:3128/squid-internal-static/icons/anthony-dir.gif\"
ALT=\"[DIR] \"></A> <A HREF=\"Y2003/\">Y2003</A>. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dec 23  2010        \n<A HREF=\"Y2004/\"><IMG border=\"0\" SRC=\"
http://localhost:3128/squid-internal-static/icons/anthony-dir.gif\"
ALT=\"[DIR] \"></A> <A HREF=\"Y2004/\">Y2004</A>. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dec 23  2010        \n<A HREF=\"Y2005/\"><IMG border=\"0\" SRC=\"
http://localhost:3128/squid-internal-static/icons/anthony-dir.gif\"
ALT=\"[DIR] \"></A> <A HREF=\"Y2005/\">Y2005</A>. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dec 23  2010        \n<A HREF=\"Y2006/\"><IMG border=\"0\" SRC=\"
http://localhost:3128/squid-internal-static/icons/anthony-dir.gif\"
ALT=\"[DIR] \"></A> <A HREF=\"Y2006/\">Y2006</A>. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dec 23  2010        \n<A HREF=\"Y2007/\"><IMG border=\"0\" SRC=\"
http://localhost:3128/squid-internal-static/icons/anthony-dir.gif\"
ALT=\"[DIR] \"></A> <A HREF=\"Y2007/\">Y2007</A>. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dec 23  2010        \n<A HREF=\"Y2008/\"><IMG border=\"0\" SRC=\"
http://localhost:3128/squid-internal-static/icons/anthony-dir.gif\"
ALT=\"[DIR] \"></A> <A HREF=\"Y2008/\">Y2008</A>. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dec 23  2010        \n<A HREF=\"Y2009/\"><IMG border=\"0\" SRC=\"
http://localhost:3128/squid-internal-static/icons/anthony-dir.gif\"
ALT=\"[DIR] \"></A> <A HREF=\"Y2009/\">Y2009</A>. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dec 23  2010        \n<A HREF=\"Y2010/\"><IMG border=\"0\" SRC=\"
http://localhost:3128/squid-internal-static/icons/anthony-dir.gif\"
ALT=\"[DIR] \"></A> <A HREF=\"Y2010/\">Y2010</A>. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Feb 20  2011        \n<A HREF=\"Y2011/\"><IMG border=\"0\" SRC=\"
http://localhost:3128/squid-internal-static/icons/anthony-dir.gif\"
ALT=\"[DIR] \"></A> <A HREF=\"Y2011/\">Y2011</A>. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Mar 12  2012        \n</PRE>\n<HR noshade
size=\"1px\">\n<ADDRESS>\nGenerated Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:43:53 GMT by
localhost (squid/2.7.STABLE9)\n</ADDRESS></BODY></HTML>\n"

The curious is that the command getURL was working well until I don't know
what happened. And using the same command in Windows works fine.

The sessionInfo() have given me the next:

R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
 [4] LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8     LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
LC_ADDRESS=C
[10] LC_TELEPHONE=C             LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
 [1] MODIS_0.5-8     maptools_0.8-16 lattice_0.20-0  foreign_0.8-48
date_1.2-32
 [6] RCurl_1.95-0.1  bitops_1.0-4.1  rgdal_0.7-19    raster_2.0-12
sp_0.9-99

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.14.1  tools_2.14.1

Kind regard for all

Francisco Zambrano Bigiarini
INIA Quilamapu, Chillán, *Chile*

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