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Date:      Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:33:58 +0200
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Subject:   Re: libfetch ftp patch for less latency
Message-ID:  <86fy7nq4q1.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <86k5wzq4vx.fsf@dwp.des.no> (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8r?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?grav's?= message of "Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:30:26 %2B0200")
References:  <460AE39B.4070706@root.org> <86odmcqylx.fsf@dwp.des.no> <200703291905.00192.pieter@degoeje.nl> <86k5wzq4vx.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> writes:
> > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > > No.  This is a violation of the FTP protocol.
> > I'm reading rfc 959 right now, and it include examples of CWD with
> > full pathname (multiple directories). Actually the rfc is kinda
> > vague about this.
> RFC959 does not require or guarantee that the path separator is /, nor
> that "CD ../foo" does what you expect.  There are also issues when the
> initial CWD is not / (the document part in an FTP URL is relative to
> the initial CWD, not absolute)

I guess I should amend "this is a violation of the FTP protocol" to
"this relies on assumptions which the FTP RFC does not allow us to
make, and is a violation of RFC1738"

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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