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

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In article <749ecea1-6180-4ab4-9945-e4d488b1387b at q35g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> writes:
>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.

Never been a problem for me from the command line! ;)

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