David, I agree with you on replying a 550 message when the path does not exist.
IBM's AS/400 FTP server returns: 550 Path does not exist: zzz ftp.netscape.com (anpnymous FTP Server) says: 550 zzz: No such file or directory Not sure what the server software is, but it claims that it is 220 spftp/1.0.0000 Server [204.2.225.157] Regards, Sai Pullabhotla Phone: (402) 408-5753 Fax: (402) 408-6861 www.jMethods.com On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:58 PM, David Latorre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey , > > Thanks for your great feedback and excuse me if I incorrectly closed some > issues. There are things you cannot do at 2 am with a fever. > > I hope after my last commit, everything is ok - although there are some > issues still open, of course. By the way, fixes are in trunk; they arrived > late for M4. > > > The LIST issue I find it difficult as it seems there's no agreement on the > return codes when pathname is incorrect: some server will always return a > 216 code (I saw this in pureFTPd ) with some returning a different string > when the pathname includes a non-existent directory (I saw this in vsFTPd). > PROFTPd seems to answer with 450 whenever 'pathname' cannot be found. > > I myself would say that "File not found" should be 550 and not 450 (and > this is not a response code for LIST, according to the RFC) but I'm probably > totally wrong ... > > What servers/clients do you guys check for this? > > > Cheers , > > David Latorre > > > 2008/12/4 Niklas Gustavsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Sai Pullabhotla >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I've opened Jira issues. Let me know if it is okay with you to fix >> > some of the easier/obvious ones for M4. I can work on some/all of >> > these fairly quick. >> >> I would not like to include these in M4 but rather in RC1 (want to get >> M4 out). If you can provide patches that would be great. >> >> Again, thanks for your feedback! >> >> /niklas >> >
