Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 17:52:53 +0000
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>
Message-ID: <20171118175253.GA9353@quantz>
| On NetBSD,
|
| ftp ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libassuan/libassuan-2.4.4.tar.bz2
|
| fails with
|
| 421 Service not available, remote server timed out. Connection closed.
| local: libassuan-2.4.4.tar.bz2 remote: libassuan-2.4.4.tar.bz2
| ftp: No control connection for command
The remote ftp server looks to be "weird" - to access that URL, the NetBSD
ftp command does
<login> (works fine - login as anonymous)
TYPE I
CWD gcrypt
PWD
CWD libassuan
PWD
(and then would go on to request the file.) That second PWD hangs at the
server - there is no response. If on the other hand it is done as ...
<login>
CWD gcrypt
PWD
CWD libassuan
PWD
TYPE I
(and then go on to fetch the file) it works fine.
That's bizarre... It is also a bit strange that our ftp client has a
fetish of issuing a PWD command after every cd - particularly when fetching
a URL, that seems to perform no useful purpose - who cares what the remote
end (the server) believes the directory is called ?
(To be strictly correct, our FTP client also issues a FEAT command, immediately
after login which is not understood by the server - indicating that the server
is probably a very old implementation - but that doesn't seem to be related.)
| If you go there say with firefox, the download succeeds, but with an
| odd "240 welcom hacker" window?!
I don't see that with seamonkey, just a normal download "what should I do
with this file" dialog. It is a quite old seamonkey though.
kre