lynx-dev Re: FTP URL handling errors in lynx 2.8.4rel.1

[David Balazic]

David Balazic wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I noticed the ftp://xx/ URL handling is not conforming to RFC-1738
> in Lynx 2.8.4
> 
> naomi:stein[]lynx -version
> Lynx Version 2.8.4rel.1 (17 Jul 2001)
> libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.6b
> Built on hpux11.00 Feb  5 2002 10:14:41
> 
> Example :
> 
>  - server :
> 
>   - name : srv1
>   - user : user1
>   - users home dir : /home/user1
>   - users file : /home/user1/example/userfile
>   - "system" file : /tmp/example/sysfile
> 
> behavior :
> 
> URL  : ftp://user1:address@hidden/home/user1/example/userfile
> lynx : does work
> rfc  : should not work
> wget : does not work
> 
> URL  : ftp://user1:address@hidden/example/userfile
> lynx : does not work
> rfc  : should work
> wget : does work
> 
> URL  : ftp://user1:address@hidden/tmp/example/sysfile
> lynx : works
> rfc  : should not work
> wget : does not work
> 
> URL  : ftp://user1:address@hidden//tmp/example/sysfile
> lynx : works
> rfc  : should work
> wget : does work

Another look at the RFC reveals that the URL
ftp://user1:address@hidden//tmp/example/sysfile
should NOT work. So another discrepancy.
 
> URL  : ftp://user1:address@hidden/%2Ftmp/example/sysfile
> lynx : works
> rfc  : should work
> wget : does work
> 
> ( wget is GNU Wget 1.7.1 )
> 
> As we see lynx does not conform to rfc 1738, while wget does.

Well _almost_ does :-)

> The problem is that lynx prepends a "/" to the path in the url :
> 
> ftp://user:address@hidden/p/a/t/h/file
> 
> lynx parses this to :
> 
> username : user
> password : pass
> hostname : host
> path     : /p/a/t/h ( wrong ! should be : p/a/t/h )
> filename : file
> 
> Regards,
> --
> David Balazic
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