[HECnet] Tops-20 ANONYMOUS FAL Preliminary Testing Results/DAP Query

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2019-12-21 01:07, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
> Yes, Unix' ls does have its unique ideas...  I was forced to implement 
> some of them as certain brain-damaged FTP clients think that when are 
> you speaking to an FTP server which claims TVS compliance (I.E., Tops-20 
> Extended Mode FTP), that you must be Unix and be able to shell out.  
> They literally issue the ls directly over the control channel instead of 
> the RFC959 compliant STAT or LIST verbs!  No where is this documented in 
> any RFC; you've got to snoop the line.  Grrr...

I've never seen an ftp client that actually gives an "ls" command. That 
would be interesting. Could you point me to one?

Otherwise, the more annoying thing in my opinion is that some tools and 
web browsers tries to parse the output from LIST, and really expects it 
to be in a totally Unix-like format.
There is some extension to the ftp protocol that is about a common file 
system representation (can't remember the exact terminology right now).
That was "fun" to implement in RSX...

> I will follow up with you off list concerning tests with RSTS, perhaps 
> over the weekend when I'm finished figuring out what to do.

You can ping me more abour RSX...

   Johnny

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