Re: Arch mirroring to Microsoft FTP Service

On 6/9/06, Jason McCarty <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> No, but a while back a had a problem that looks like the same root
> cause. This was with larch, however, not tla. I'll quote an old message
> of mine, written June 22, 2003 to the old [email protected]
> list, message-id [email protected] :
>   [...]
>   I think this is because Microsoft's FTP server has a buggy NLST
>   command:
>     Client: NLST /bclg/wwwiup/{archives}/test
>     Server: /bclg/wwwiup/{archives}/test\=meta-info
>   First, it doesn't include dotfiles in its output. Second, it uses a
>   backslash as the final path delimiter.
>   [...]
>
> I can't offer you access to my account, but perhaps Stefan can confirm
> if this is the problem via tcpdump or otherwise. Probably other FTP
> clients have a workaround for this problem we could employ. I recall
> NcFTP in particular as being able to list those files (though NcFTP is
> under some artistic license, not GPL).


Thank you very much for the information.  I hope Stefan can verify if this
is indeed the problem (and it seems likely).

If so, then it is time to explore working around the wonderful world of
Microsoft FTP...



-- 
Andy Tai, [email protected]