On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 08:18:04PM +0100, Robert de Bath wrote:
> Two issues; obviously the hang caused by GuildFTP sending a blank line in
> response to your 'SITE IDLE'. Maybe a default to off ? (If you feel like
> it!)
Ok, it is not very important anyway.
> The other is the auto-sync-mode string, lftp doesn't spot the "GuildFTPD"
> in the first line but only words in the final "220" line.
I fixed that, the fix is in CVS. Thanks for report.
> Hmmm: Perhaps you should rename the option auto-sync-mode to
> "auto-broken-server" and have it turn off lots of other features
> too (use-abor, site-idle, passive-mode, rest-stor, use-stat) so
> that lftp then uses the server like a very old ftp client.
>
> Maybe an auto-evil-server for web-mode too... :-)
sync mode is common, other problems are rare. They can be ignored. (or am
I mistaken?)
> Actually now that the user can define this regex it would be nice if lftp
> delayed sending the initial "USER" response until it sees the "220" lines
> IFF it has a regex to check. That way it won't have to disconnect and
> restart the transfer and possibly upset a b'stard server.
But then connect to good servers will be slowed down.
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Alexander. | never mind that noise you heard
