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Re: FTP with CURLOPT_NOBODY different behavior when performingonnon-existing files #5953

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From: Lukas Friembichler via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 18:51:16 +0100

Thanks for your reply

> Why can't your FTP server report the size of that file? It does
> exist.

I was under the impression that this simply didn't work for directories
(like I said I'm not a FTP expert), so I thought that was a 'feature'..

If I look at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3659#section-4.2 it says

> The presence of the 550 error response to a SIZE command MUST NOT be
> taken by the client as an indication that the file cannot be
> transferred in the current MODE and TYPE.

and the '* The file does not exist' message actually (after browsing the
source a bit) originates in libCURL and not from the FTP (as a response
to the 550 error code..)

To be honest I'm not even sure why the SIZE command is issued at all
(I'm not interested in that..)

Lukas
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