Hi Ed, > I recall reading that the Netscape developer (pre-AOL days) responsible for > their browser FTP code was incredulous when it was decided that they would > recode their entire browser from scratch. He had written ugly code to > carefully manage 60 or so nonstandard variations of the protocol implemented > by FTP server software.
Sixty! Wow. > Reichart's company wrote a commercial/sharware FTP client a while back > (IIRC), so it must be possible to do a reasonably good implementation. Yes, FTP Gadget. Regards, Brett. > > Ed > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brett Handley" > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 7:44 PM > Subject: [REBOL] Re: FTP scheme was Re: Reading empty directories via FTP > error > > > > Hi Carl, > > > > > Happily, reading directories whether empty or otherwise works fine on > > > all my sites after running those. > > > > Ah good. > > > > So far, it looks like between us on this thread there is at least 3 maybe > 4 > > different server behaviours for FTP. Although we haven't established yet > the > > nature of our connections (proxy?/passive?). > > > > Regards, > > Brett > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
