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Re: using ftp and easy libcurl

From: Alexandru Iancu <alexandru.iancu_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:27:16 +0300

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Alexandru Iancu wrote:
>
> I'm testing a rfc959 ftp server(www.myserverproject.net) with
> > > > curl-loader and tests are failing because of commands not
> > > > implemented.
> > > >
> > >
> > > The server should simply return failure on commands it doesn't
> > > understand.
> > > Doesn't it?
> > >
> >
> > Yes, the server responds as it should with a 5xx failure reply.
> > Let's take for example SIZE cmd(not implemented by the server) ...
> > ... it seems that curl-loader(this uses libcurl) decides the server
> > behaves
> > inappropriate to a RETR request because of SIZE cmd reply 502 issued in
> > between :( .
> >
>
> But then that's a curl-loader flaw rather than anything else, don't you
> think? Why would it consider a perfectly legitimate command sequence to be
> bad?
>
> I searched a bit curl mailing list and I found this link:
> > http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2006-08/0032.html
> >
> > Is is possible to disable SIZE cmd?
> >
>
> That mail just asked the same question and the answer is still the same:
> no

 Thank you!

Regards,
Alexandru IANCU.

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Received on 2008-04-03