On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 20:35:48 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 02:38:26 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote:
>>>> Glenn McCorkle wrote: >>>> .. > Go for it. ;-) >>>> .. > I'll bet a weeks pay check that you can't prove me wrong. >> Well, after trying for several hours to get the ftp hetnet site running >> from Arachne... I decided to stop trying for the time being. >> You made your point Glenn and as we all know M$ and Arachne do not fit. > I just did a search with google for..... > "microsoft ftp server" (quotes included) > This is just one of the many 'hits'. > http://www.hiteksoftware.com/mize/Knowledge/articles/010.htm > So, this is a known problem with MS FTP server v5 :(( >> Spying on the modem signal did give the following results (connected to >> the ftp site with Windows Commander). > Thank you, thank you, thank you. :) > By including this information here in this email. > You may have just enabled me to fix this problem. >> CONNECT 48000/V42BIS >> MB("Welkom bij HetNet") >> Microsoft FTP Service (Version 5.0) >> Password required for ba8tian [password was entered from keyboard] >> 230-Welkom op de FTP-server van Hetnet >> #230 User ba8tian logged in > ( ^ this is what they are taking about in 'listing style setting') > --- clipped from the above URL --- > Causes > The Microsoft Ftp server default > directory listing style is set to MSDOS > This causes the Directory listing > command to fail, and hence download > fails. If the Ftp server default directory > listing style is set to Unix, then download works. > __________________________________________________ > The *REAL* 'FTP standard' does not allow for that '#' symbol to be there. > The new 'MS standard' is placing that '#' symbol on some of the lines. > (but not all of them) > Bastiaan, > Would you like to be a 'beta tester' for the > fresh compile I have just done of core.exe ???? > This is the code I added. > --- in ftp.c --- > while(buffer[3]=='-' || buffer[4]=='-' || buffer[0]==' ');//continued message! > //!!glennmcc: July 9, 2003^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > //to compensate for the fact that M$ FTP server is sometimes placing a '#' > //symbol in front of the number.... #230- instead of simply 230- > ___________________ > buffer[number] is referring to the 'offset' from the start of the line. > Since MSFTP v5 is adding that '#' symbol... we now need to also look > for that dash at offset 4 instead of just 3. > If this works the way I hope it does. > We should now be able to access MSFTP v5 sites without problems. > So Bastiaan, > Do you feel like being the first guinea pig to try this baby ??? ;-) Hold off for a while. After seeing what Michal wrote. It looks like I need to ammend my 'fix' __________________________________________________________________________ On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:42:38 +0200, Michal H. Tyc wrote: > From RFC 959: (URL="http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/959/24.htm";) > Thus the format for multi-line replies is that the first line > will begin with the exact required reply code, followed > immediately by a Hyphen, "-" (also known as Minus), followed by > text. The last line will begin with the same code, followed > immediately by Space <SP>, optionally some text, and the Telnet > end-of-line code. > For example: > 123-First line > Second line > 234 A line beginning with numbers > 123 The last line > The user-process then simply needs to search for the second > occurrence of the same reply code, followed by <SP> (Space), at > the beginning of a line, and ignore all intermediary lines. If > an intermediary line begins with a 3-digit number, the Server > must pad the front to avoid confusion. > On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 02:38:26 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: >> 230-Welkom op de FTP-server van Hetnet >> #230 User ba8tian logged in >> 215 Windows_NT version 5.0 >> 250 CWD command successful >> 257 "/" is current directory >> 200 Type set to A >> 200 Port command successful > So, Batiaan's server seems to violate RFC 959. > The multi-line reply started with "230-..." is not terminated > with a proper "230 ..." line. I think that the hash sign ("#") > makes Arachne wait for a correct reply forever. > Hope this helps, > Michal _____________________________________________________________________ Michal, Does this look like it will 'do the trick' ??? I'll wait for your reply before compiling this. --- in ftp.c --- while(buffer[3]=='-' || buffer[4]=='-' || buffer[0]==' ' || buffer[0]=='#'); //continued message! //!!glennmcc: July 9, 2003^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^________________^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ //to compensate for the fact that M$ FTP server is sometimes placing a '#' //symbol in front of the number.... #230- instead of simply 230- ___________________ -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/aqc/
