Bug 6558

Summary: fetch -c /tmp -f somefile does not work
Product: Base System Reporter: Mikhail Teterin <mi>
Component: binAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Mikhail Teterin 1998-05-09 02:50:01 UTC 
	fetch -c /somedir -f somefile -h server
is _quetly_ translated into
	fetch -c somedir -f somefile -h server
which, of course, breaks if the user's home directory on the server
is not /

Fix: 

Use some other tool. Providing extra slashes does not help
How-To-Repeat: 
	setenv FTP_LOGIN your_login
	setenv FTP_PASSWORD yourPassword
	fetch -v -v -v -v -c /tmp -f fixit.flp.bz -h www
	...
	User your_login logged in.
	Sending: TYPE I
	Type set to I.
	Sending: CWD tmp
	tmp: No such file or directory.
	fetch: www: tmp: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)

Same problem occurs when using the URL mode as in
	fetch -v -v -v -v -o - ftp://www//tmp/fixit.flp.bz
Same result as above.
Comment 1 Bill Fenner freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 1998-05-09 08:24:06 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Fetch takes a URL.  This is how ftp: URL's work.  Use 
ftp://some.host/%2Cdirectory/ if you want a real slash. 
(Technically, ftp://some.host//directory/ means to perform 
a sequence of commands which violates the FTP protocol, 
which is why fetch silently drops the extra slash). 
I addressed this issue in the man page but forgot to 
commit it; mea culpa.
Comment 2 Bill Fenner freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 1998-05-09 08:41:21 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: closed->open

The bug is about "-c", not the URL syntax.  I didn't read it 
carefully enough.  There's an XXX comment in main.c describing 
the fix to this bug; the solution to this PR is to implement the 
fix described in the comment.  Sorry for jumping the gun on 
closing the PR.
Comment 3 fenner 1998-05-09 08:44:24 UTC 
In message <199805090731.AAA15743@freefall.freebsd.org> you write:
>ftp://some.host/%2Cdirectory/ if you want a real slash.

Of course, I meant %2F.  And I skipped over the part where the
original complaint was about the "-c" flag.  Checking the code,
this problem was thought of but not addressed:

            /*
             * XXX - we should %-map a leading `/' into `%2f', but for
             * anonymous FTP it is unlikely to matter.  Still, it would
             * be better to follow the spec.
             */

So, for now, use the ftp://some.host/%2Fdirectory/ URL form, and
someone should fix fetch to do what the comment says to do.

  Bill
Comment 4 Dag-Erling Smørgrav freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 1998-05-09 09:50:12 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Fixed in -current and -stable.