cvs commit: src/lib/libfetch fetch.3 ftp.c

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Nate Lawson <njl at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>   Log:
>   Add back the original behavior of changing the entire directory path at
>   once (CWD a/b/c vs. 3 CWDs).  If an error occurs, we fall back to the default
>   method of a single CWD per directory element.  Since this is technically
>   a violation of the basic FTP RFC

Actually, it's a violation not of RFC959 (FTP) but of RFC1738 which
indicates how FTP URLs should be handled.

>                                   , this behavior is under a compile-time
>   option FTP_COMBINE_CWDS and is off by default.  It should work with most
>   Unix-based FTP daemons and can save latency.

Thanks.

I'm going to set up a ports fetch run with FTP_COMBINE_CWDS enabled to
see how it works out in the ugly, real world.  If it works out well, I
might replace the #ifdef with a command-line option or environment
variable for "strict RFC conformance".

DES
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