On May 27, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Sun, 27 May 2007, James Housley wrote:
>
>> I just got sent this by a user of my software that uses libcurl to
>> upload files. Has anybody seen an FTP server return an error of
>> "Invalid command" for the "TYPE A" command? And is there a way to
>> get around it?
>
> There's no way around in without patching source code.
>
> But I'll offer a little quote from RFC959:
>
> "This is the default type and must be accepted by all FTP
> implementations."

That is what I thought too, but EarthLink does not think so.

Jim

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