Re: Bug in libfetch handling of FTP urls..

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des_at_des.no)
Date: 07/04/05

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    To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 04:48:44 +0200

    John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
    > Ran into this at work. Suppose I am fetching a file over ftp for a user foo
    > whose home dir is /home/foo' and I want to retrieve the 'bar/baz' file out of
    > his home directory. [...]

    This is tricky because libfetch caches FTP connections, so you can't
    always assume that CWD is ~ at the beginning of the transfer if you've
    already transferred something from the same host/user/password tuple
    in the same process. See (ironically) RFC 1738 section 3.2.5.

    Connection caching is an essential feature, because it has a huge
    impact on the speed of a network install. Although sysinstall still
    uses libftpio + cpio, one may hope that it will one day in the not-
    too-distant future switch to libfetch + libarchive.

    > I verified this by doing 'fetch -vv' and seeing that it does one big CWD
    > (instead of the multiple CWD's the RFC says should happen) and that it
    > includes the leading '/' when it should not.

    I am currently testing a patch for this.

    > Also, it seems that fetch ignores the ';type=X' optional part of the url-path
    > and always uses TYPE I.

    Correct, that was never implemented. At the very least, the typecode
    should be stripped from the URL.

    DES 

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no
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