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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: bin/4670: /usr/bin/fetch fails to ftp a file ncftp can
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<<On Wed, 1 Oct 1997 10:50:02 -0700 (PDT), John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> said:

>  now the question is, should we simply add a / to the front of the path
>  in fetch?

No.  FTP URLs are SUPPOSED to be relative to wherever FTP puts
incoming users.  If you want to add a literal `/' to the URL, add
`%2f' at the beginning.  (Many URL parsers interpret this
incorrectly... the third slash in an absolute URL is ONLY a separator,
and does not comprise part of the `path' component.)

-GAWollman

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