Bug 15000
| Summary: | ftp(1) needs to send HTTP/1.1 Host: header | ||||||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | mike | ||||
| Component: | misc | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | 3.2-RELEASE | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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I got a fast response from Luke Mewburn, the FTP guy for NetBSD. Their ftp(1) is 80 patchlevels ahead of FreeBSD's and has many more improvements than just the Host: header. He says: "I would recommend that FreeBSD imports and tracks ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/lukemftp/lukemftp-1.1.tar.gz because that is a `self contained' product with various fixes to stuff like libedit and extra libc functions which FreeBSD may not have yet." You can also look at http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/basesrc/usr.bin/ftp/fetch.c to see how far ahead they are with just ftp/fetch.c. We just moved xml.apache.org, so the example I posted doesn't fail anymore. But you get the idea. Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->des Over to Mr. fetch. Responsible Changed From-To: des->freebsd-bugs ftp(1) is not fetch(1), and does not use fetch(3). State Changed From-To: open->closed o submitter recommends lukemftp for better http support using an ftp client (though fetch(1) should also work fine). <jedgar@FreeBSD.org> writes: > o submitter recommends lukemftp for better http support using > an ftp client (though fetch(1) should also work fine). Fetch(1) does indeed work fine, and always has - for a suitable definition of "always" :-) As for lukemftp, there is a good chance we will switch to it at some point in the not-to-far future. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org |
Section 19.6.1.1 of RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1) says: Given the rate of growth of the Web, and the number of servers already deployed, it is extremely important that all implementations of HTTP (including updates to existing HTTP/1.0 applications) correctly implement these requirements: - Both clients and servers MUST support the Host request-header. Fix: I also submitted this patch to the NetBSD GNATS database. How-To-Repeat: This fails because the HTTP server needs to be told that the desired virtual host is xml.apache.org, not 209.133.83.18: ftp http://xml.apache.org/dist/LICENSE.txt