On 22-Apr-00, Fred Wright wrote:
>>>>> AmiFTPd is worth the registration fee. It works very well.
>>>> But doesn't support normal FTP commands like:
>>>>
>>>> MPUT/MSEND
>>>> MGET
>>>> MDELETE
>>>> CHMOD
>> You have a strange definition of "normal". There are no such commands
>> in the FTP standard, nor do typical servers implement them.
>> Implementing mput on the server side seems especially strange, anyway.
>>
>> Bummer - yes, of course. But MGET is hard to live without when using
>> with command line clients. My definition of "normal" here is "as
>> supported by most servers". What's yours?
>
> Huh? Mget, mput, and mdelete are all normally implemented in the
> *client*, and require no special server support at all (except that mget
> and mdelete require NLST).
Ah, okay. I thought MGET was implemented at the server end, requiring the
client to just send the wildcard string.
> The "normal" way that these commands work is:
>
> Mput - client does local wildcarding and iterates on STOR commands to
> the server.
>
> Mget - client issues NLST to server with specified wildcards; server
> interprets wildcards and delivers list of filenames; client iterates on
> RETR commands.
I see. So then wildcard interpretation *is* done at the server end, but
in a separate command. I guess both server and client need to support it
then, instead of just one of them.
> Mdelete - like Mget except uses DELE instead of RETR.
Thanks for the explanation. Problem is: AmiFTPd does not support NLST.
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