2009/8/7 Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>:
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Patrick Monnerat wrote:
>
>> My question is: does anybody think about a realistic better way to
>> workaround this, or better: to fix libcurl to avoid the problem, whether the
>> remote server is an OS400 or not ? As hints, names in format 0 never starts
>> with a '/', and you cannot expect IBM to change something in the server !!!
>
> I'll admit I haven't spent very much thinking about the problem, but as
> libcurl would need to send something and as it would need to do it without
> knowing if the server is OS400 or not, I figure a sensible thing to send
> would be SYST.
>
> SYST is an RFC959 command and is documented to return the server's operating
> system. Then if OS400 is mentioned there, and only then, libcurl could do
> the necesary magic to set the correct mode.
>
> The downside with this approach is that libcurl would send an extra command
> for each new control connection and perhaps most importantly: I found
> references on the web that claim: "Often times FTP servers block this
> information or allow the administrator specify what the response should be."
> which thus would render the results useless and we'd be back on square one
> again...

I'm not sure it would be useless. I think it's unlikely that FTP
servers on other operating systems would pretend to be running on
OS400.

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot_at_gmail.com>