Re: ftpd/httpd and RH/Fedora installation

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 07:18:18PM +0100, Laurent Bercot wrote:
> > Perhaps they parse LIST output and don't understand EPLF?  That's
> > the only functional difference between publicfile's ftpd and
> > others, right?
> 
>  Right. Most FTP servers output the same thing for LIST and NLST ;
> and most FTP clients incorrectly use LIST where they should use NLST.
> publicfile's ftpd sends the usual format when it receives a NLST
> command, as it must ; but it sends EPLF when it receives a LIST
> command, as it is allowed to.
>  The correct solution is to write to FTP client authors and ask them
> to fix their programs.
>  The simple solution is to use a correct FTP client such as ftpcopy.
>  The kludgy solution is to patch publicfile's ftpd to get rid of EPLF.

How about httpd?  Yum, for example, can work with Apache, but barfs
with httpd.

Mate
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