On 2015-06-24 16:04, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote:
> 
> You should not look at just RFC 959, unfortunately.
> Yes, "QUOTE" does not appear as a defined command in an RFC, in so far as I 
> have been able to dig into all the FTP RFC's, but have noticed that commonly 
> used FTP commands; "PUT","GET", "MPUT", & "MGET" are also NOT defined in the 
> RFC!
> 
Silly me!  I should have thought before I wrote.  Of course, the
RFCs (generally) describe network protocols, not user interfaces.
It is far from the province of RFC 959 to specify the operation of
FileZilla or of any GUI FTP client.

> I did look at RFC 414 and there is just this little note:
> " Note also that it is useful to provide a "Quote" or "talk" mode
>    in user-FTP, to enable a user to input commands directly to the FTP
>    server (i.e. commands not implemented in user-FTP).  It is desirable
>    that user and server FTP features and desirable modes of usage be
>    documented and reported via the RFC mechanism."
> 
(But they can make suggestions.)

> What this all leads to is that you need to get a FTP SERVER command sent and 
> as I mentioned before:
> FTP.sendcmd(cmd)
> 
>     Send a simple command string to the server and return the response string.
> 
> FTP.voidcmd(cmd)
> 
>     Send a simple command string to the server and handle the response. 
> Return nothing if a response code corresponding to success (codes in the 
> range 200–299) is received. Raise error_reply otherwise.
> 
(Are these Python-peculiar?)

-- gil

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