ftp protocol and urlpath
Daniel Dignam (daniel@edsug.com)
Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:02:09 +0100
Hi,
I'm trying to use GET to retrieve files from an ftp deamon on an NT
box. It would appear that the / between the host and the urlpath is
being sent as part of the request to the ftp deamon, instead of just the
urlpath.
For example, if I do the following
GET -x ftp://fraggle:rock@lighthouse/d:
we get the following command being sent
LWP::IO::write: Write 10 bytes: 'list /d:
'
I guess I would expect the command to be list d:. From RFC 1738 we
have the following defintion:
//<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<url-path>
and from 3.2.2. FTP url-path, we have:
The url-path of a FTP URL has the following syntax:
<cwd1>/<cwd2>/.../<cwdN>/<name>;type=<typecode>
Doesn't this mean that / between the host and the urlpath is not part
of the request ?
Your in confusion,
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Daniel Dignam,
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