Bug 30067

Summary: ftp crashes when using globbing in GET requests
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: edoardo serra <eddise>
Component: ftpAssignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 7.0CC: eddise
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Description edoardo serra 2001-02-28 19:19:41 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)


when I connect to an ftp and do a GET request using
the globbing character "*", I get a segmentation fault

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Connect to an FTP server
2.login
3.type: "get path/*"
	

Actual Results:  Segmentation fault

Expected Results:  I should have downloaded all files contained in "path"
Comment 1 edoardo serra 2001-02-28 19:24:04 UTC 
Created attachment 11402 [details]
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Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-02-28 19:26:18 UTC 
get doesn't do globbing.
What you want is "mget".
Or use ncftp, which has a different command set.

Granted, it shouldn't segfault, but it shouldn't work the way you expect it to 
either.