[PATCH] Add support for filezilla server

Blake Winton bwinton at latte.ca
Tue Oct 9 19:18:36 BST 2007


John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> Could someone with access to a filezilla server write some sort of
>> Mock-filezilla transport which doesn't connect to a back-end, but
>> instead returns the responses that a real filezilla server would return?
> Well, you could adapt our testing ftp server (which uses Medusa). I
> don't think it would be terribly hard to hack the error strings.

That's the generic "you", right?  :)

> But there could always be a bit of drift versus the real filezilla (what
> happens if they decide they need clearer error messages, etc.). I
> suppose it still gives a reasonable point of entry.

Even if there was drift, continuing to check code against a version of 
filezilla which we've seen in the wild isn't a horrible idea.

> Then again, I'm fine with just merging the fix, and not worrying too
> much about the details.

Same here.  I just thought I'ld point out a way that this could be 
tested, if someone were motivated to test it.

Later,
Blake.



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