Re: [Bug-wget] New option "--no-list-a"

[Daniel Stenberg]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, Tim Ruehsen wrote:

> Could you enlighten me about where '-a' comes from ? RFC 959 is very clear 
> that a param after LIST is either a filename or a directory name.

LIST -a basically works with the assumption that the server will detect that 
it looks like an option and run ls locally with that option. It is a flawed 
assumption and as you say not based on any FTP spec.

Lots of servers will return an error and I would imagine additional fun if 
such a server would have an actual directory named '-a' where that LIST 
command runs! :-)

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