Bug 9147

Summary:	wget does not set ftp path correctly
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	mal
Component:	wget	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	CC:	rvokal
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Description mal 2000-02-05 18:15:59 UTC

There is a bug with wget-1.5.3-4
If ftp server sets initial direcory to anything else than /
Example:

$ wget --passive-ftp
ftp://rawhide.redhat.com/pub/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS/samba-2.0.6-6.src.rpm
--13:08:41--
ftp://rawhide.redhat.com:21/pub/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS/samba-2.0.6-6.src.rpm
           => `samba-2.0.6-6.src.rpm'
Connecting to rawhide.redhat.com:21... connected!
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD pub/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS ...
No such directory `pub/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS'.
$

The directory exists, but wget misses starting / in pub/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS

Vladislav

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-02-07 11:46:59 UTC

Try specifying the URL as:
ftp://rawhide.redhat.com:21//pub/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS/samba-2.0.6-6.src.rpm

Wget's behavior in this case is consistent with my reading of section 3.2.2
of RFC 1738, which states that the '/' separating the hostname from the
directory is not to be taken as part of the path, and that each part of the
path needs to be supplied as the argument of a "cwd" command given to the server
after the client is connected.  I'd agree it's somewhat annoying, though.