From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 1 11:11:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F4316A41F for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:11:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from aiolos.otenet.gr (aiolos.otenet.gr [195.170.0.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F119043D73 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:11:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from flame.pc (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.226]) by aiolos.otenet.gr (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-8) with SMTP id jB1BBFJG026311; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 13:11:15 +0200 Received: from flame.pc (flame [127.0.0.1]) by flame.pc (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jB1BAcWL001491; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 13:10:38 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by flame.pc (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id jB1BAbfx001490; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 13:10:37 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 13:10:37 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Stevan Tiefert Message-ID: <20051201111037.GB1109@flame.pc> References: <438DA3B0.9000808@freenet.de> <20051130132010.GA1280@flame.pc> <57416b300511302137i67c6187dkf75cd165a3b50398@mail.gmail.com> <200512010951.18574.stevan.tiefert@freenet.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200512010951.18574.stevan.tiefert@freenet.de> Cc: Peter Clutton , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD telnetd and Microsoft Internet Explorer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:11:32 -0000 On 2005-12-01 09:51, Stevan Tiefert wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2005 06:37 schrieb Peter Clutton: > 8<-------------------- > ... funny things... > 8<-------------------- > > Thanks for your off-topic message... You helped very well to solve a > problem. :-( > Now everybody knows where the problem is, or not? There are many > ftp-sites where IE can access them without problems. But not ftpd from > FreeBSD 5.4 in this special case... In a way, you could say that it's the FTP server's fault, but only if you have very good reasons to support that IE's ftp client mode is perfectly fine (which it isn't, but this is my personal opinion, of course). > Question again, why? Because the parsing of FTP server's output for "dir" commands, that show the listing of files in a directory, is implemented entirely on the client side, and in this case it's horribly broken. > Is that a special problem oft ftpd? No. I've wasted many hours trying to access FTP sites that don't run FreeBSD too, when I was forced to use IE as my "interface". > I think it seems to be an IE-problem, but what is happening > between IE and ftpd causing this problem? 1. IE's ftp-client asks for a directory listing. 2. The ftp server provides one. 3. IE's ftp-client side tries to parse the listing. 4. It fails. As you said... it's an IE problem :)