mget FTP Error 500

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Ryan Oates
Ryan Oates on 4 Mar 2015
Hi,
Below is my code, any reason Error 500 is popping up?
% Initial FTP Info
username = 'anonymous';
password = 'ryan.oates@hotmail.com';
host = 'prism.nacse.org';
f = ftp(host,username,password);
xx = mget(f,'/daily/ppt/1981/PRISM_ppt_stable_4kmD1_20140114_bil.zip');
If I "cd" to the exact folder where the file is located and use mget(f,filename) the same error appears.
Thanks guys!
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John Udall
John Udall on 4 May 2018
Edited: John Udall on 4 May 2018
I'm getting the same issue when following the example from the mget help file .
ngdc = ftp('ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov');
mget(ngdc, 'README.txt');
close(ngdc)
Which results in the following error
Error using ftp/mget (line 109)
FTP error: 500.
Is this a bug with mget? Are others able to get matlab FTP functions to work properly?
P.S. I'm on MATLAB R2017a

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Seyed Mostafa Mousavi Kahaki
Edited: Seyed Mostafa Mousavi Kahaki on 11 Jun 2019
It looks like a bug to me. I finally used "urlwrite" function and it works fine for me. I'm using MATLAB R2017a.
Something like this:
LocalFilePath = urlwrite('ftp://someaddress.org:8811/dong/retrograde/image.tif', 'image.tif');

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