Marc-Etienne Vargenau writes:
Yes, I have the same problem. With Netscape on Macinstosh or Unix
(Solaris). I sent a few days ago a private e-mail to George about
this and he answered that I was the only one to have this
problem. He told me that
ftp://gimps:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/home/gimps/programs.txt works and
that ftp://gimps:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/programs.txt dit not work with
Internet Explorer on his computer. I would probably consider this
a bug in Internet Explorer.
>From your description, it is a bug either in IE or in either the HTTP
or FTP server on 209.45.246.79; the FTP protocol is quite clear as to
the directory at login. But FTP itself (my Linux ftp client, e.g.,
rather than a web browser) is working correctly, so the FTP server
appears to be working fine.
My Linux box's lynx (a text-only web browser) gets seriously confused
by either URL; the server is sending something that causes lynx to
switch my xterm to an alternate, unreadable, character set (which
implies a bug in lynx, too; it shouldn't do that sort of thing no
matter what it gets over the connection).
Oddly enough, my Linux Netscape Navigator also works only with the
longer URL, so something screwy is going on.
But note that the URL:
ftp://gimps:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/~gimps/programs.txt
... should work with correct and broken (in this fashion) browsers,
even if it does appear to be from the Department of Redundancy
Department.:)
Will
