Re: IT Ticket 1636909 - FTP "size" problem

Gopi:

One of my customers believes that our wu-ftpd 2.6.2 ftp server is slightly 
borken.

" When in binary mode (TYPE I), the server is *always* returning zero
from the SIZE command.  I believe this is an error"

I tried to isolate this and found that it, however, we restart the ftp
connection, we can get the correct results (I think!  But I just
noticed that the last set of data points is not in binary mode...):

ftp> quote size welcome.msg
213 2518
ftp> cd pub
ftp> quote size axlxt.tgz
213 4799355
ftp> 
ftp> send xerox.asf
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for xerox.asf.
226 Transfer complete.
local: xerox.asf remote: xerox.asf
961003 bytes sent in 0.28 seconds (3316.67 Kbytes/s)
ftp> quote size xerox.asf
213 0
ftp> quot size xerox.asf
213 0
ftp> 

metis% ftp ftp
Connected to ftp.
220 ftp FTP server (Version wu-2.6.2(1) Mon Feb 24 20:50:00 PST 2003)
ready.
Name (ftp:ghicks): ftp
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
ftp> cd pub
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> quot size xerox.asf
213 966160
ftp> 

Any thoughts?

Regards,
Gregory Hicks
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