The install program translates a FTP URL of "ftp://132.250.90.8/home/FreeBSD" to "CWD home/FreeBSD" Since the FTP daemon drops the user in his home directory, the CWD doesn't get him where he's trying to go. We kluged it with a URL of "ftp://132.250.90.8/../FreeBSD" This is not necessarily FreeBSD's fault; the URL syntax and user misconceptions of it is the real problem.
State Changed From-To: open->closed broken as designed I think. putting a leading slash there would seem to be an error to me.
In message <199806252039.NAA14777@mango.parc.xerox.com>, you write: >In fact, according to RFC1738, the way to request a leading / in a >CWD is to start the URL with %2F, e.g. ftp://132.250.90.8/%2Fhome/FreeBSD . > >Perhaps this should be documented in the ftp install help. Since this would be a reasonably frequently wanted thing when doing a non- anonymous FTP of the install sets, it would be nice if this were documented somewhere or a one-line reminder was around the prompt window. -Craig
In fact, according to RFC1738, the way to request a leading / in a CWD is to start the URL with %2F, e.g. ftp://132.250.90.8/%2Fhome/FreeBSD . Perhaps this should be documented in the ftp install help. Bill
> The install program translates a FTP URL of > "ftp://132.250.90.8/home/FreeBSD" > to > "CWD home/FreeBSD" > Since the FTP daemon drops the user in his home directory, the CWD > doesn't get him where he's trying to go. We kluged it with a URL of > "ftp://132.250.90.8/../FreeBSD" Erm, I think this really is the expected behavior. If you're specifying an ftp://foo.bar/pub/baz URL, it's implicit that you're saying "relative to the anonymous FTP user" for pub/baz and this certainly works everywhere else. :) Unless you can really point out how changing this would not be a bug in and of itself, I will close this PR. Regards, - Jordan