Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:19:06 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>, "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, Calvin NG <calvinng@brel.com>, Sean Chittenden <sean-freebsd-stable@chittenden.org>, Jeff Kletsky <Jeff+freebsd@wagsky.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_version perl hacker project Message-ID: <15079.16202.48073.928253@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20010425200506.C39540@mail.webmonster.de> References: <20010423231827.A19530@rand.tgd.net> <20010424142340.E5216@brel.com> <20010424014833.B19530@rand.tgd.net> <20010424120052.H89156@xor.obsecurity.org> <200104241907.f3OJ7u103414@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010424123517.A90547@xor.obsecurity.org> <2001@=> <20010424134637.A10180@rand.tgd.net> <20010425023146.B54713@xor.obsecurity.org> <15078.58981.52059.986092@guru.mired.org> <20010425200506.C39540@mail.webmonster.de>
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Karsten W. Rohrbach <karsten@rohrbach.de> types: > Mike Meyer(mwm@mired.org)@2001.04.25 09:59:49 +0000: > > If the FTP site uses some obscure mechanism like accounts, that might > > be a problem. But I don't think that's the case here. > every ftp site uses some obscure mechanism like accounts. normally the > account is ftp or anonymous and due to the session management in ftp Those are user names, and are sent to the FTP server with the USER command. I'm talking about *accounts*, which are sent to the FTP server with the ACCT command. The only servers I've encountered that used them were running on IBM mainframes. Since Unix doesn't provide an account mechanism distinct from user, I wouldn't be surprised if a Unix scripting language doesn't have support for this feature of the FTP protocol. > sessions the connections live too long, mostly, and therefor the > resource you are requesting might be unavailable very often due to > session count and login limitations. therefor ftp is pretty crappy to > fetch small files (eg. <100k). That, of course, is a perfectly valid reason for moving things from an FTP server to an HTTP server. It's different from the one I replied to - which may well not be the one the author I was replying to meant. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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