Subject: problems with wu-ftpd and netscape/mosaic/ftptool

From: Daniel Quinlan <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 11:57:58 -0700

I have just noticed/been notified of problems reading things
from my anonymous ftp server from netscape, mosaic, and ftptool.

In netscape and mosaic, the results are unreliable.  Sometimes
a directory is shown properly, sometimes it shows up as empty.
Ftptool seems to reliably be wrong, showing empty directories.

Plain ftp is reliably right.

I'm told ange-ftp is unreliable.

This seems to be related to the automatic generation of messages, 
which I've consequently turned off altogether.   However, even with 
all messages turned off, ftptool 4.5 running from a Solaris machine
never shows the root directory, although it's possible to change
directory to pub, for example, and then see the correct listing.

This is not a permissions or setup problem, as plain ftp works.  On the other
hand, it doesn't seem to be simply a problem with netscape or mosaic
or ftptool.

I'm flummoxed at this point.  Does anyone have suggestions?

Thanks,
-- danq

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