Bug 145711 - gFTP should not disconnect on 4xx return code from server
Summary: gFTP should not disconnect on 4xx return code from server
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gftp
Version: 8
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
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Assignee: Christopher Aillon
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: 145699 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-01-20 19:49 UTC by Don Russell
Modified: 2009-01-09 06:51 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-01-09 06:51:53 UTC
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Description Don Russell 2005-01-20 19:49:18 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Description of problem:
Not every ftp server has a default working directory upon logon.

When gFTP connects and logs on it issues a PWD command.
When there is no default working directory, gFTP sees return code 450
and promptly disconnects, saying it will try again 30 seconds.

This is wrong. gFTP should remain connected, and allow the user to use
the drop down menus to manually change directory.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.0.17

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ftp to: sruvm.sru.edu
2. anonymous
3.
    

Actual Results:  Looking up sruvm.sru.edu
Trying sruvm.sru.edu:21
Connected to sruvm.sru.edu:21
220-FTPSERVE IBM VM V2R4 at SRUVM.SRU.EDU, 12:59:21 EST THURSDAY 01/20/05
220 Connection will close if idle for more than 5 minutes.
USER anonymous

230-ANONYMOU logged in; no working directory defined
230 File pool SERVER5 unavailable or unknown;
SYST

215-VM/ESA Version 2 Release 3.0, service level 9902
    VM/CMS Level 14, Service Level 902
215 VM is the operating system of this server.
TYPE I

200 Representation type is IMAGE.
PWD

450 No current working directory defined
Invalid response '4' received from server.
Disconnecting from site sruvm.sru.edu
Waiting 30 seconds until trying to connect again

Expected Results:  gFTP should have left well enough alone and stayed
connected after getting the 450 from the PWD command.

Additional info:

I'm setting this as "high severity", not because it crashes etc, but
because it diminshes the usefulness of the program... there's no way
to effectively use the ftp server if the server doesn't have a default
working directory.

4xx erros from FTP means the condition is temporary and may be tried
again..... so gFTP must not disconnect from the server in those cases.

Comment 1 Don Russell 2005-01-20 20:34:37 UTC
I'm not sure how this happened... but this is an exact copy of bug
145699. Since this one is assigned now, and the other is not, 145699
should be deleted, or at the very least marked as a duplicate of this one.

Sorry for the confusion... like I said.. I don't know how that
happened. :-(

Don Russell

Comment 2 Don Russell 2005-01-21 00:00:53 UTC
*** Bug 145699 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Don Russell 2005-04-26 15:55:09 UTC
Problem also exists in gftp-2.0.18-0.FC3

Comment 4 Matthew Miller 2006-07-10 22:37:20 UTC
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security
updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and
reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and
hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test
release, reopen and change the version to match.

Thank you!


Comment 5 Don Russell 2006-07-11 23:57:08 UTC
Change from FC3 to FC5, affected software versino is gftp-2.0.18 (same version
as 2005-04-26 above in comment #3)

Thanks

Comment 6 Matthew Miller 2006-07-12 01:58:12 UTC
Thank you.

Comment 7 petrosyan 2008-03-10 06:05:09 UTC
Fedora Core 5 is no longer maintained. Is this bug still present in Fedora 8?

Comment 8 Don Russell 2008-03-10 22:40:44 UTC
Yes, the problem still exists in Fedora 8... I changed the version FC version to 8.

gftp-2.0.18-7.fc8

Thanks

Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 06:48:50 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 8 is nearing its end of life.
Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining
and issuing updates for Fedora 8.  It is Fedora's policy to close all
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Comment 10 Don Russell 2008-11-26 07:16:38 UTC
Go ahead and flag this as WONTFIX. I've been tracking this since FC3, FC10 is out today... and I don't use gFTP any more, haven't for a long time.

Comment 11 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 06:51:53 UTC
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.


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