Re: [Bug-wget] LIST command supported by WGET

[Tim Ruehsen]

Hi,

wget tries "LIST -a" first. If the FTP server doesn't understand it (=returns 
an error message), wget falls back to "LIST".

Tim

On Monday 23 May 2016 15:46:51 李明 wrote:
> Hi, I use wget-1.11.4 to download the file successfully from my FTP server
> which wrote by myself. When I updated wget to  verion 1.16 , I found that
> download file failed. The reason is my FTP server only support 'LIST'
> command. In this case wget-1.16 run in the case  UST_TYPE_L8，using 'LIST
> -a' as a standard command.
> 
> In RFC0959(FTP), the ”LIST -a“ is not declared clearly a standard command.
> So I personally think that in this case it would be without compatibility.
> Is it more reasonable to try "LIST -a" then "LIST"? Thank you very much.
> 
> Regards,
> Liming

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