Bug 30067 - ftp crashes when using globbing in GET requests
Summary: ftp crashes when using globbing in GET requests
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: ftp
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-28 19:19 UTC by edoardo serra
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:31 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2001-02-28 19:24:08 UTC
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
core file (552.00 KB, application/octet-stream)
2001-02-28 19:24 UTC, edoardo serra
no flags Details

Description edoardo serra 2001-02-28 19:19:41 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
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]
core file

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.



Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.