On Thu, 31 May 2001, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:25:19PM +0200, Daniel Dechelotte wrote:
> > Good point : when I used the ftp protocol, I saw the correct
> > permissions of the directory : 700. When I try do read/cd it, of
> > course, I encounter an error 403 permission denied. All right.
> >
> > What surprises me is that when using the default protocol (ie hftp,
> > isn't it?), I read those permissions : 755, and I encountered error
>
> hftp cannot always find the permissions in html listing (often there
> are no permissions in it), so a default value is shown.
If the repercussions aren't a problem it might be a good idea to make
the default permissions something like:
d????????? 2 hftp default 4096 May 10 1997 sounds
So that it's pretty obvious that lftp has no idea what the perms are.
--
Rob. (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
<http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>
