I am trying to fetch info from a ftp site and find out if data has changed. I have done this with no problems on html pages but cant seem to fetch the page source code from the ftp file.

When I fetch the contents of the ftp symantec anti virus info I get the unix filesystem listing instead of the html page source code. Anything different I need to do to fetch the contents of a ftp site? 

use LWP::Simple;
use warnings;
use strict;


my $url = 'ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/antivirus_d
+efinitions/norton_antivirus_corp/';


my $content = get($url);  
print "$content\n";  #prints unix filesytem listing

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Output: 
total 230628
-rwxrwxr-x  1 hevasymantec-ftp4  hevasymantec-ftp4   987053 Jan 23 15:
+53 20040123-007-i32-1.exe
-rwxrwxr-x  1 hevasymantec-ftp4  hevasymantec-ftp4  1325979 Jan 23 15:
+53 20040123-007-i32-2.zip
-rwxrwxr-x  1 hevasymantec-ftp4  hevasymantec-ftp4  1137726 Jan 23 15:
+53 20040123-007-i32-3.zip
-rwxrwxr-x  1 hevasymantec-ftp4  hevasymantec-ftp4  1137848 Jan 23 15:
+53 20040123-007-i32-4.zip
-rwxrwxr-x  1 hevasymantec-ftp4  hevasymantec-ftp4  4599122 Jan 23 15:
+53 20040123-007-i32.exe
-rwxrwxr-x  1 hevasymantec-ftp4  hevasymantec-ftp4  3109802 Jan 23 15:
+53 20040123-007-o32.zip
-rwxrwxr-x  1 hevasymantec-ftp4  hevasymantec-ftp4  8658502 Jan 23 15:
+53 20040123-007-unix.sh
-rwxrwxr-x  1 hevasymantec-ftp4  hevasymantec-ftp4  7637800 Jan 23 15:
+53 20040123-007-x86.exe
-rwxrwxr-x  1 hevasymantec-ftp4  hevasymantec-ftp4   987048 Jan 26 18:
+38 20040126-021-i32-1.exe
.....more lines etc...

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I was hoping to get the html page version something like this: 
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Directory listing for /public/english_us_canada/ant
+ivirus_definitions/norton_antivirus_corp/</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><h2>Cur
+rent directory is /public/english_us_canada/antivirus_definitions/nor
+ton_antivirus_corp/</h2><BR><HR><DD><A HREF="ftp://ftp.symantec.com:2
+1/public/english_us_canada/antivirus_definitions/"><IMG SRC="http://1
+64.214.7.246:80/-http-gw-internal-/menu.gif">&nbsp;..</A></DD><DD><A 
+HREF="ftp://ftp.symantec.com:21/public/english_us_canada/antivirus_de
+finitions/norton_antivirus_corp/20040123-007-i32-1.exe

"><IMG SRC="http://164.214.7.246:80/-http-gw-internal-/blank.gif">&nbs
+p;20040123-007-i32-1.exe

</A></DD><DD><A HREF="ftp://ftp.symantec.com:21/public/english_us_cana
+da/antivirus_definitions/norton_antivirus_corp/20040123-007-i32-2.zip

"><IMG SRC="http://164.214.7.246:80/-http-gw-internal-/binary.gif">&nb
+sp;20040123-007-i32-2.zip

</A></DD><DD><A HREF="ftp://ftp.symantec.com:21/public/english_us_cana
+da/antivirus_definitions/norton_antivirus_corp/20040123-007-i32-3.zip
...etc....
</BODY>
</HTML>

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