99614 - Mozilla returns "UNKNOWN Type: L8" error trying to connect to this ftp site

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Networking: FTP, defect)

Description

[James Paige]

Using build 2001091003 on Windows 95

Attempt to connect to ftp://ftp.sandpipers.com and Mozilla will pop up an error
saying: "UNKNOWN Type: L8"

I can connect to the same ftp site with Netscape 4.x with no problems, and I can
connect with Windows' console-ftp program.

The server identifies itself saying:

220 www.sandpipers.com FTP server (Version wu-2.4(101) cruzio.com Wed Jan 19
20:45:53 PST 2000) ready.

Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

confirmed, win98 branch 2001091303

Comment 2

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

dougt: Lets just search (case insensitive) for: "Type: L8" as well as than
unix/bsd. I have no idea what that means, and google doesn't help, but it seems
to indicate that its unix-style directory listings.

Comment 3

[Shotaro Kamio]

Mozilla0.9.4/Linux also does.

in Unix, try "ftp" command
> ftp ftp.sandpipers.com

you logged in, type "system" command.

ftp> system
215 UNKNOWN Type: L8 
ftp> 

This is what Mozilla get.
"system" is a command to show remote system type.
But result code 215 is not written in RFC 640, 542.
What this mean?

Comment 4

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

reassigning to [e-mail].

Comment 5

[Shotaro Kamio]

Oops. 215 is a valid result code.

Comment 6

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Lets do my suggestion. Taking, and ->0.9.6 since I'm not landing anything til my
dirviewer rewrite happens. May make 0.9.5, though.

Comment 7

[Tom Everingham]

another example of this at ftp://ftp.austin.ibm.com

Comment 8

[Tom Everingham]

*** Bug 90662 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

*** Bug 101204 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

The patch I'm going to attach works on these servers.

Comment 11

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Attachment: patch

Comment 12

[Darin Fisher]

Comment on attachment 50464 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

r/sr=darin

Comment 13

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

Comment on attachment 50464 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

sr=shaver

Comment 14

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Fixed checked in. Eventually.

Pull revisions 1.197, 1.198, and 1.199 of nsFtpConnectionThread.cpp for the fix.

Comment 15

[benc]

VERIFIED using Mac OS X, RC2.