[Info-vax] Working on Chromium's FTP code, testing with VMS FTP servers

[Steven Schweda]

VAXman- <@sendspamhere.org> wrote:

> [...]  I'd wager that if it works with Multinet that TCPware
> would just fall out too.

   Is "fall out" anything like "fall down"?  A quirk in the
TCPware FTP server (V5.6-2) led to a change in wget because
when that server saw a typical wget "CWD a/b/c" command, it
would switch into its UNIX emulation mode, which completely
bewildered wget's FTP LIST-parsing, which (foolishly?)
believed, "Once a VMS server, always a VMS server".  I never
observed a MultiNet FTP server doing this (but that proves
little).

   Moral: Even though most/all VMS FTP servers accept a
command like "CWD a/b/c", and it's more efficient than a
"CWD a" + "CWD b" + CWD c" command sequence, sometimes it pays
just to follow the RFC.

> [...] You might take a look at the VMS-adapted wget code for
> some LIST-parsing hints.

   Still my opinion.