Re: FTP strangeness

In article <12gskj8rnfikj57@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Gremlin" <not-here@xxxxxxxx> writes:
Hi

I put these suggestions to SmartFTP who replied"....Whatever your other
source says we believe they are wrong and it seems they are unable to
understand the RFCs correctly. Furthermore 5xx is always an error code.
Listing an empty existing directory shouldn't return an error code.

I don't know about all VMS FTP servers, but the one on
eisner.encompasserve.org distinguishes between the case of
a parameterless LIST or NLST command in an empty directory
and a LIST or NLST with a parameter that is a non-existent file
name or an unsatisfied wildcard.

NLST
200 Port command accepted
150 List started
226 transfer completed

NLST nosuch.file
200 Port command accepted
150 List started
552 RMS-E-FNF, file not found, nosuch.file

We will no further comment on this issue. Thank you for your understanding."

But as you point out, it's irrelevant.
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