In a perfect world, the functionality in the newer RFC that I mentioned would communicate the client's locale to the server, and they'd both behave in a way that took that into account (including filename expansion, presumably).
AFAIK (from a very quick and brief look at the code), the current Solaris command line ftp client does _not_ implement that functionality - nor does its ftp server. So on an "mput", I'd suppose that the client _might_ take the locale into account, and on an "mget", the server would use whatever its default locale was. But that's just a guess. (Although I don't actually see any mention in RFC2640 of using the locale passed with the LANG command to adjust filename expansion, but I haven't read the entire RFC, either.) Solaris ftp and ftp handle multibyte (UTF-8) names correctly simply because UTF-8 is what's used natively for multibyte names, and is also what's specified for ftp transfers. But they don't do all the rest of what's required to make it a good experience. So ftp transfers between Solaris (and in general, probably between most Unix) systems should work ok, but I wouldn't count on anything else working. Even between Solaris client and server, if it were me, I'd do some tests to see whether mget and mput worked the way I wanted before depending on it. There is at least one free ftpd that claims to implement LANG, HOST, FEAT, and OPTS (last two RFC2389)...and claims to build on Solaris. http://www.pro-bono-publico.de/projects/ftpd.html There may be others, but that's as far as I've looked, since I don't need this functionality myself. I haven't looked for a command line ftp client that implements the various commands newer than RFC959. I'm not that interested. But it didn't take me very long to find a server (which I think is really the first step). So I expect there probably is one, somewhere. I get the feeling that very few people really care about new functionality in ftp. As long as the old (RFC959) functionality works so that their old stuff doesn't break, most seem to be ok with doing anything newer on the web instead. If you feel differently, why don't you do the research, see what clients and servers work best for you, and maybe which are reasonably compatible (esp. the server) in features and log file format(s) with the wu-ftpd that's on Solaris now. Maybe if you found (or submitted a patch) something that was compatible enough, had an acceptable license, and did what you wanted, you might be able (esp. if you had a support contract, these days) to persuade someone to take the time to look at whether it would be worth replacing the existing ftp client and server with those. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
