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Date:      Wed, 1 Oct 1997 11:54:28 -0700
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/4670: /usr/bin/fetch fails to ftp a file ncftp can
Message-ID:  <19971001115428.03021@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
In-Reply-To: <199710011828.OAA19756@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on Wed, Oct 01, 1997 at 02:28:46PM -0400
References:  <199710011750.KAA27156@hub.freebsd.org> <199710011828.OAA19756@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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Garrett Wollman scribbled this message on Oct 1:
> <<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.)

yep... if you add a %2f, fetch will complete successfully.... so would
adding a fourth slash to be relative be in spec? or are all repeate
slashes suppose to be condensed? because fetch will work if you do:
fetch ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de//pub/...

thanks for the clarification on the url's...

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