Re: [Bug-wget] New option --no-list-a

2013-08-30 Thread Tim Ruehsen
I'm not convinced that creating a new option is the solution. I would prefer that if the first LIST -a returns an empty list, it retries just with LIST to detect if it's a server without this (which is likely, we don't even have . and ..) Naturally, if there ever was a working LIST -a *or*

Re: [Bug-wget] New option --no-list-a

2013-08-30 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, Tim Ruehsen wrote: Could you enlighten me about where '-a' comes from ? RFC 959 is very clear that a param after LIST is either a filename or a directory name. LIST -a basically works with the assumption that the server will detect that it looks like an option and run ls

Re: [Bug-wget] New option --no-list-a

2013-08-30 Thread Tim Ruehsen
On Friday 30 August 2013 11:39:41 Daniel Stenberg wrote: On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, Tim Ruehsen wrote: Could you enlighten me about where '-a' comes from ? RFC 959 is very clear that a param after LIST is either a filename or a directory name. LIST -a basically works with the assumption that the

Re: [Bug-wget] New option --no-list-a

2013-08-30 Thread Andrea Urbani
Hello Ángel, I wrote some systems because in the sources is written: /* 2008-01-29 SMS. For a VMS FTP server, where LIST -a may not fail, but will never do what is desired here, skip directly to the simple LIST command (assumed to be the last one in the list). */ so the problem with the

Re: [Bug-wget] New option --no-list-a

2013-08-30 Thread Ángel González
On 30/08/13 18:03, Andrea Urbani wrote: Hello Ángel, I wrote some systems because in the sources is written: /* 2008-01-29 SMS. For a VMS FTP server, where LIST -a may not fail, but will never do what is desired here, skip directly to the simple LIST command (assumed to be the