Re: [PATCH] ftpfs/libftpconn

[Niels Möller]

Moritz Schulte <moritz@duesseldorf.ccc.de> writes:

> I haven't found a way in the FTP protocol, which helps us here.

In theory, the command "mlst" should help. But it's also
underspecified and not always implemented. For example, ftp.roxen.com
implements it like this:

  $ ftp ftp.roxen.com
  Connected to ftp.roxen.com.
  220-Roxen FTP server running on Roxen 2.1/Pike 7.0
  ...
  ftp> quote help
  214-The following commands are recognized (* =>'s unimplemented):
     ABOR    DELE    MLFL*   NLST    REST    STAT    XMAS*
     ACCT*   FEAT    MLSD    NOOP    RETR    STOR    XMKD
     ALLO*   HELP    MLST    OPTS*    RMD    STOU*   XPWD
     APPE*   LIST    MODE*   PASS    RNFR    STRU*   XRCP*
      BYE    LPRT*   MRCP*   PASV    RNTO    SYST    XRMD
     BYTE*   LPSV*   MRSQ*   PORT    SITE    TYPE    XRSQ*
     CDUP    MAIL*   MSAM*    PWD    SIZE    USER    XSEM*
     CLNT    MDTM    MSND*   QUIT    SMNT*   XCUP    XSEN*
      CWD     MKD    MSOM*   REIN    SOCK*   XCWD
  214 Report any bugs to roxen-bugs@roxen.com.
  ftp> quote mlst
  250-OK
   type=dir;UNIX.mode=509;charset=8bit;modify=19700101010000 /
  250 OK
  ftp> bye
  221 Bye! It was nice talking to you!

Hmm, searching for a standard for mlst, there seems to be some ongoing
work to make mlst useful. draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-14.txt.

Regards,
/Niels