299894 - Unable to navigate directories on some FTP servers.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 299875

(Core Graveyard :: Networking: FTP, defect)

Description

[Chris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

After logging on to an FTP site, the top level directory structure is displayed.
 Whn attempting to navigate into a subdirectory, I get an error "425-Download
Failed".  I have seen this error when logged into a system running GuildFTPd as
well as the native FTP server on our HP-UX unix systems.  It seems that Firefox
is unable to diferentiate between files and folders on some FTP servers.  When
trying to navigate to the directory /pub on an FTP site running GuildFTPd, I
have noticed that Firefox tries to open the link ftp://ftpsite/pub and attempts
to download the file "pub".  If I type the link manually as ftp://ftpsite/pub/
including the last slash, then firefox will open the folder and display the
files correctly.  I have no problem navigating the directories on the same FTP
servers with either Internet Explorer, FireFTP, or WSFTPLe.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log onto a ftp server running GuildFTPd
2. Attempt to navigate into a subdirectory
3. 

Actual Results:  
Error 425-Download 

Expected Results:  
A listing of that folder

It appears that firefox knows the difference between files and directories
because both are shown with their correct icons.  I appears that when trying to
open a subdirectory, it attemts to download it instead of cd'ing into it and
listing it.  It's unfortunate that I am forced to use IE for the time being as
it seems to work just fine.

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

You seem to have filled this twice, duping.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 299875 ***