Re: PR 43133 should be closed

    Date:        Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:21:07 -0500 (EST)
    From:        Mouse <[email protected]>
    Message-ID:  <[email protected]>

  | FTP clients that, by default, do a SYST and then, for some returned st=
rings
  | (including almost everything extant today), switch to TYPE I.

You are indeed quite correct, everything I was seeing is the client, too s=
mart
by a long way, but never mind.

So I have changed my mind, this would all have been a client issue all the=
 time.

  | 959 specifies a STAT command.

So it does, that one I had forgotten though I suspect I have used it in th=
e past.

  | but "quote STAT" works, and, for my test connection, resulted in

Indeed it does, and while a modern NetBSD ftpd returns lots more than your=
 test
server, it did illustrate that the server was in ascii mode, and only chan=
ges to
binary mode with a RETR command (just before it) based upon client action,=
 and
changes back (again, based upon client action) just before a LIST command.

  | > Right now I see nothing needing fixing (or not in this area).
  | I am inclined to agree.

So that is definitely true now - my only lack of understanding is how (in =
2010)
Martin managed to get ftp.netbsd.org to send DIR output in binary mode, bu=
t
ftp.de.netbsd.org not to.   Doesn't matter any more now though.

kre