Bug#251051: nautilus: ftp should not do LIST -l

[David N. Welton]

Stewart Jeacocke <stewart@jeacocke.org.uk> writes:

> You reported the fact the the ftp module in gnome-vfs issues "LIST
> -L" commands and that these did not work with the ftp server that
> you were using. If you can remember it would be useful to know what
> ftp daemon you were trying to connect to?

> After reading some files it appears that that this is done is to
> allow the program to spot symbolic links. However, there are already
> special cases in the code for MACOS, NETWARE and Windows NT so
> another one could probably be added if we know what ftp daemon you
> were dealing with?

Wow, I reported this ages ago.  The FTP daemon in question was one
written in Erlang, located in the jungerl sourceforge repository.

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