Re: lynx-dev An ftp browsing bug

[dickey]

> 
> On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 02:33:49PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 
> > 990625 Roozbeh Poornadah wrote: 
> > > Try to point it to  ftp://ftp.mcafee.com  and then browse further. 
> > > It cannot find the right boundaries of directory name 
> > > and tries to browse into things like: 
> > > ftp://ftp.mcafee.com/7PM%20%20%20%20.... 
> >  
> > there's a misformed HREF: 
> >  
> > <A 
> > HREF="/foo/../7PM%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3CDIR%3E%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pu
> >  
> > +b" 
> > >7PM       <DIR>          pub</A> 
>  
>  
> But it's an ftp url, meaning that it's generated internally by lynx. 

We hit something like this about a year ago - iirc it was not a Lynx bug
though (something amiss with the remote server which was fixed later).

(But then again, maybe it's a bug in Lynx)
  
> We probably have a couple of options here. 
>  
> The HTFTP.c from the latest libwww probably has more support then the one 
> currently shipped with lynx (WAG).  We could try to work up to just that 
> file. 

I was browsing that library earlier this week. It'll be a lot of work.
Maybe file-by-file...

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