Re: FTP Bug

From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:32:29 +0000

Jesus Cea Avion wrote:
>
> Squid 2.1 here.
>
> FTP proxying doesn't send absolute paths, and it sends "CWD" for each
> path component.

I thought the error page you get has a clickable link to what would be the
correct URL, e.g. for ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/foo :

-=-=-=-=-=-
[error stuff]
This might be caused by an FTP URL with an absolute path (which does not
comply with RFC 1738). If this is the cause, then the file can be found at
ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/%2f/foo.
-=-=-=-=-=-

> A living example in
> http://www.drsolomon.com/download/corporate-avtk/index.cfm

Their web page is broken with respect to RFC 1738. Complain to them.

Jifl

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Received on Wed Feb 24 1999 - 10:20:59 MST

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