266079 - Accessing an FTP server with a complex URL fails due to invalid CWD

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: Networking: FTP, defect)

Description

[Lincoln Ramsay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

The following url fails because firefox tries to CWD into a nonexistant directory:
ftp://lramsay:[e-mail]:4242/home/lramsay/tmp/qpehome/oldpda/Documents/text/plain/test.txt
Firefox tries to open
/home/lramsay/src/qtopia-1/src/home/lramsay/tmp/qpehome/oldpda/Documents/text/plain/test.txt/
The extra stuff on the beginning is the $PWD of the FTP server process.
Pasting the url into Internet Explorer works. Adding an extra / before the path
makes firefox work:
ftp://lramsay:[e-mail]:4242//home/lramsay/tmp/qpehome/oldpda/Documents/text/plain/test.txt


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open FireFox
2. Paste in a complex URL (containing uername, password, port and file that is
under several directories)

Actual Results:  
FireFox tries to open a non-existant directory causing the FTP operation to fail.

Expected Results:  
FireFox should have opened the correct directory.

This sort of URL is used when talking to a Qtopia/Opie device (eg. Zaurus). If
you have access to a Qtopia device you can test against the (limited) FTP server
that it uses for file transfers.

Since the Qtopia device does not use a "standard" FTP server there's a
possibility that the FTP server is sending something to FireFox that is
confusing it but I am tempted to discount this since Internet Explorer handled
the URL just fine.

Comment 1

[Josh Birnbaum]

->Networking:FTP

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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