Re: Are we done with draft-hoffman-ftp-uri-02.txt?

> Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158

Now, is that version control, or is that a history book? How nuanced  
can Explorer be? No wonder it's difficult for the average consumer to  
have any real confidence. Mine's a  
'6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158'. Pass. :)

Tony



On 29 Oct 2004, at 20:36, John Cowan wrote:

>
> Paul Hoffman / IMC scripsit:
>
>>> "Developers of new FTP client implementations that consume FTP URIs
>>> should attempt access to the file using the slash-prefixed
>>> ('/<cwd1>...') path first, and only use the format specified in RFC  
>>> 1738
>>> ('<cwd1>...') if that operation fails."
>>
>> This works for me; how do others feel?
>
> I strongly disagree.  In particular, the following URI produces  
> different
> results when tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.0rc1 and Internet Explorer
> 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158, my two current browsers:
>
> 	ftp://stamber:stamber@publish.reutershealth.com/ftptest.txt
>
> Mozilla conforms to the RFC, whereas IE does not.  Neither one returns  
> an
> error of any kind.  (Note that the user  
> stamber@publish.reutershealth.com
> is *not* automatically confined to a subtree.  I will remove this  
> account
> in a few days.)
>
> I also tested some command-line Linux (Fedora Core 2) programs that
> understand FTP URIs.  Lynx 2.8.5dev.16 does not conform to the RFC,
> but NcFTPGet 3.1.7, curl 7.11.1, and wget 1.9 do conform.  Given this
> diversity of behavior, I don't think it's appropriate to recommend
> the non-conformant interpretation, but simply to note that there are a
> considerable number of non-conformant clients of the specified type.
>
> I note that all the clients correctly interpret the URIs
> ftp://stamber:stamber@publish.reutershealth.com/%2Fftptest.txt and
> ftp://stamber:stamber@publish.reutershealth.com/%2Fexport/home/ 
> stamber/ftptest.txt
> since %2F is an uninterpreted slash and /export/home/stamber is  
> stamber's
> home directory.  These results of course depend on the fact that the
> server, which is the native Solaris 8 in.ftpd server, interprets a
> leading / as reaching the root directory of publish.reutershealth.com.
>
> In any case, "server implementers" are not the people who need to be  
> aware
> of this; rather it is FTP client implementers who understand RFCs who  
> should
> care, and users of FTP URIs who are likely to be hosed by the diverse  
> behavior.
>
> -- 
> The man that wanders far                         
> jcowan@reutershealth.com
> from the walking tree                            
> http://www.reutershealth.com
>         --first line of a non-existent poem by:         John Cowan
>




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