On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 6:38 AM, Geoff Watters <[email protected]>wrote:
> I am writing an application that uses VFS to implement the FTP operations. > > I have found that the VFS implementation (commons-vfs2-2.0.jar)) relies on > the List permission on the remote directory structure. > > For example, if I am FTPing a file to a remote dir "uploads", then on the > remote system, the <ftpUserHome> that already contains a subdirectory > called "uploads", does require List privilege. This is targeting FileZilla > Server (0.9.41 beta) on Windows 7. > > If List privilege is not granted then the following exception is raised:- > Caused by: org.apache.commons.vfs2.**FileSystemException: Could not > create folder "ftp://myLaptop/upload";. > at org.apache.commons.vfs2.**provider.AbstractFileObject.** > createFolder(**AbstractFileObject.java:999) > at org.apache.commons.vfs2.**provider.AbstractFileObject.** > getOutputStream(**AbstractFileObject.java:1424) > at org.apache.commons.vfs2.**provider.DefaultFileContent.** > getOutputStream(**DefaultFileContent.java:461) > at org.apache.commons.vfs2.**provider.DefaultFileContent.** > getOutputStream(**DefaultFileContent.java:441) > at org.apache.commons.vfs2.**FileUtil.copyContent(FileUtil.**java:111) > at org.apache.commons.vfs2.**provider.AbstractFileObject.** > copyFrom(AbstractFileObject.**java:1053) > ... 24 more > Caused by: org.apache.commons.vfs2.**FileSystemException: Could not > create FTP directory "ftp://myLaptop/upload";. > at org.apache.commons.vfs2.**provider.ftp.FtpFileObject.** > doCreateFolder(FtpFileObject.**java:544) > at org.apache.commons.vfs2.**provider.AbstractFileObject.** > createFolder(**AbstractFileObject.java:988) > > If the remote file does exist, then the exception is not raised even when > List privilege is not granted to the <ftpUserHome> directory. > > List privilege is not needed when using a command-line FTP client. > > Is this a known issue or restriction? > Well, it does not seem to be documented in the Javadoc. It is not clear to me if you think this is a bug or if it should be part of the documentation. Please feel free to submit patches (for trunk) via Jira. Thank you, Gary > > Thanks in advance > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > user-unsubscribe@commons.**apache.org<[email protected]> > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
