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

"Mark Coffman" <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Sep 2005 12:52:56 -0400
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-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[email protected]]=20
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 12:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: 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 .
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> 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.
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> Everything looked wonderful and worked very well.

Yup.

> Fired up IE 6.0 from the same box, and got gibberish that couldn't
drill=20
> 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=20
> root directory, and will download files from the root directory, but=20
> reports an error 550 (permissions) when I try to go into any of the=20
> sub-directories.

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

Charles
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