Re: FTP Bug

From: David J Woolley <djw@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:24:04 +0000

> FTP proxying doesn't send absolute paths, and it sends "CWD" for each
> path component.

That is correct and is required by the definition of ftp scheme URLs.

See RFC 1738, section 3.2.2.

Think about VMS or IBM mainframe filenames; '/' is still the
directory separator.

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