Re: libfetch ftp patch for less latency

Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no> writes:
> Pieter de Goeje <pieter_at_degoeje.nl> writes:
> > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no> writes:
> > > No.  This is a violation of the FTP protocol.
> > I'm reading rfc 959 right now, and it include examples of CWD with
> > full pathname (multiple directories). Actually the rfc is kinda
> > vague about this.
> RFC959 does not require or guarantee that the path separator is /, nor
> that "CD ../foo" does what you expect.  There are also issues when the
> initial CWD is not / (the document part in an FTP URL is relative to
> the initial CWD, not absolute)

I guess I should amend "this is a violation of the FTP protocol" to
"this relies on assumptions which the FTP RFC does not allow us to
make, and is a violation of RFC1738"

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.no