Re: publicfile peculilarities, ftpd trouble

Darren Spruell <[email protected]> Sat, 30 Nov 2002 11:27:58 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.djb.publicfile
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Charles Cazabon wrote:
>>to move up a dir, I found cdup will move you up.  I don't have an answer
>>why cd .. will not work.
> 
> 
> I think it's because "cd .." isn't defined in the FTP spec as the way to move up
> the tree; "cdup" is.  Servers which happen to work with "cd .." used to be
> very rare (at least they were in '86-90 when I did a lot of FTP), although
> that doesn't seem to be the case now.

So in the spirit of djbware, defacto again takes a lower step to 
correctness.  Dan's software is opening my eyes to what internet 
specifications are all about.

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