NetBSD Problem Report #3011

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Message-Id: <199612090420.PAA27306@eterna.com.au>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 15:20:03 +1100 (EST)
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
Reply-To: mrg@eterna.com.au
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: ftp could be smarter with host:/path and URL's
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>Number:         3011
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       ftp could be smarter with host:/path and URL's
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          closed
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Dec 08 20:35:02 +0000 1996
>Closed-Date:    Sun Jan 19 14:20:58 +0000 1997
>Last-Modified:  Sun Jan 19 14:22:41 +0000 1997
>Originator:     matthew green
>Release:        <NetBSD-current source date>
>Organization:
people's front against (bozotic) www (softwar foundation)
>Environment:

System: NetBSD splode.eterna.com.au 1.2B NetBSD 1.2B (_splode_) #332: Tue Oct 29 07:12:41 EST 1996 mrg@splode.eterna.com.au:/orb/t/build/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/_splode_ sparc


>Description:

if the host:/path or URL given to the new ftp client is actually a directory,
it would be nice if it logged in as with -a, and cd'd to the path, waiting
for normal ftp commands.

% ftp alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/ircII
Connected to frobnitz.gnu.ai.mit.edu.
220 frobnitz.gnu.ai.mit.edu FTP server (Version wu-2.4(1) Mon Nov 4 14:46:31 EST 1996) ready.
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
230-Please read the file README
230-  it was last modified on Tue Apr  5 12:22:06 1994 - 978 days ago
230-Please read the file README.non-free-software
230-  it was last modified on Thu Jun 13 20:06:40 1996 - 178 days ago
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
200 Type set to I.
500 'CWD ': command not understood.
CWD command not recognized, trying XCWD
500 'XCWD ': command not understood.
local: ircII remote: ircII
200 PORT command successful.
550 ircII: not a plain file.
221 Goodbye.

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: lukem 
State-Changed-When: Sun Jan 19 06:20:58 PST 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
fixed in latest version. however, to make coding easier (well, *lots* easier), 
you have to help ftp out and put a trailing slash to get this behaviour, 
otherwise it treats it as a file xfer. 
>Unformatted:

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