Re: EFS 1.16 bug: Bernstein's anonftp arrgh

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"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:

> Greetings earthlings:
> 
> I errorneously sent the following report to Bill Perry since I was
> using w3.el when it was encountered, now redirecting to efs-bugs.
> 
> Start at href="http://pobox.com/~djb/www/proto/design.html".
> 
> This gets redirected to
> "ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/proto/design.html"
> 
> (I also tried on rfced.html, same results.)  Looks like "koobera" does 
> not believe in allowing directory listings via ftp.
> 
> Here's the error message in the w3 buffer:

  This looks like the old 'if I dont see it in an ls it must not exist'
behaviour of ange-ftp/EFS.  The same thing will happen if you try to
retrieve a foo.gz file from a server that understands auto-zipping a file
when you ask it too.

-Bill P.

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