[merge] FTP now has and passes regression tests

Robey Pointer robey at lag.net
Thu May 18 07:15:19 BST 2006


On 16 May 2006, at 18:30, John Arbash Meinel wrote:

> In my little bit of testing, I wasn't able to get ftp to work, because
> the return codes don't mean anything (I can't tell if mkdir fails
> because the directory already exists, or because the parent directory
> doesn't exist). The return strings seem completely implementation
> dependent. Where the return code just indicates success/failure, not
> really an error code.

Do I get to say "I told you so" yet? ;)

We really shouldn't be counting on getting detailed reasons for  
errors from the transports, many of which are dumb.

robey





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