Re: FTP works in Firefox, not in IE or WS_FTP

James <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just installed publicfile (first install) on a new FBSD 5.4 installation .
> 
> Configured publicfile to use /ftp/loc01 as root using configure utility.
> Put a variety of files and directories under /ftp/loc01/files/0/, checked
> svstat to make sure ftpd was running, and fired up Firefox from a different
> machine.
> 
> Everything looked wonderful and worked very well.

Yup.

> Fired up IE 6.0 from the same box, and got gibberish that couldn't drill 
> into any of the directories.

Expected: MSIE doesn't understand EPLF:
http://cr.yp.to/ftp/list/eplf.html

Firefox/Mozilla does.

> Fired up WS-FTP Pro, which connects, and displays the contents of the 
> root directory, and will download files from the root directory, but 
> reports an error 550 (permissions) when I try to go into any of the 
> sub-directories.

Interesting.  I have no advice about this proprietary program.  Have you
contacted the vendor?

Charles
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