Re: Clients using a GUI to access FTP

----- Original Message ----- From: "Hoff Hoffman" <hoff-remove-this@xxxxxx>
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But what was the command, the error, etc?

As mentioned in the original post, the "command" was clicking on ftp://username:password@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The error is rather hard to show since it is on a GUI and this is a text only newsgroup. Basically every file shows a timestamp of 01/01/1980 12:00PM, files with short names show up with the size (in blocks), date, UIC and protection as part of the filename. Long filenames show only the filename with another file below that shows a name built from the size, date, UIC and protection.

How is the site set up?

As mentioned in the original post "HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.5" but I did not mention that this is on an OpenVMS V8.2 machine with ODS5 disks.

Which version of Internet Explorer?

I.E. 6

Of TCP/IP Services?

As mentioned in the original post "HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.5"

What was the URL used?

As mentioned in the original post ftp://username:password@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Forward slashes, or backslashes?

As mentioned in the original post ftp://username:password@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I pinged your site via Internet Explorer earlier today, and bumped into a requirement for a username and password; there's no anonymous access, apparently.

Right, this is only for supported customers to pick up their license keys and software updates.

Also found the following over at Microsoft:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=135975

And the following URL over there indicates Microsoft doesn't support FTP connections into "VAX or VMS FTP servers", at least in the older IE version cited:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;266389

And does Mozilla Firefox, or FileZilla (both GUIs, obviously), or some other tool work with the same sequence?

I don't know, all I know is that I had a customer complaining that my FTP server is broken because HP knows that MS ignored the RFCs when they wrote IE but HP stands firm and tells us to complain to MS. If I remember correctly Process provides a logical that can be set to tell their TCPWare FTP server to present listings in a Unix way just for this problem. HP should be able to do the same thing instead of telling us that they are right and MS is wrong

I don't know off-hand if the OpenVMS EFS/ODS-5 or other more current work has allowed compatibility with the Microsoft Internet Explorer implementation.

This is on a ODS5 disk, but I have to make sure I do not use ODS5 filenames since the FTP server does not play well with names like "CHARON-VAX 3.1.62.exe" as Steven M. Schweda pointed out in his post.

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Peter Weaver
www.weaverconsulting.ca
CHARON-VAX CHARON-AXP

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