kioslave FTP - working on new features

[Juergen Pfennig]

On Wednesday 22 September 2004 17:06, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 September 2004 16:01, Juergen Pfennig wrote:
> > The kioslave ignores the existence of sym links.
>
> Does it? This used to work, at least. Can you actually reproduce 57172 ?
>
> > Kio seems to provide no infrastructure for sym links.

(0) ... none in the ftp client ...

> This is wrong. KIO definitely supports symlinks - how else would people
> copy symlinks around with konqueror?
> See KIO::symlink in job.h, and virtual void symlink(...) in slavebase.h

(1) Nice, would have checked that anyhow ... if the function works why did 
nobody use it before?

I googled a bit and found not very much info on "standard" ways of handling 
symlinks with ftp. The question will be: Take a symlink "as is" e.g. simply 
copy it or modify it? As a 1st try I will not modify symlinks.

(2) The EPFL thing:
Some people hate it, Mozilla supports it. I found no clear advise on how to 
handle symlinks. The i-field would help for hard links only (and to avoid dir 
recursion). Other questions: EPFL does not send owner, group and mode (how to 
detect an executable?). I will try to implement it like specified in:

http://bgp.potaroo.net/ietf/all-ids/draft-bernstein-eplf-02.txt

I found only two EPFL server sites: ftp://cr.yp.to/ and ftp://ftp.ohse.de/

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