topic FTP does not behave as normal servers do in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ftp-does-not-behave-as-normal-servers-do/m-p/227687#M180817 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I tried to access the FTP service using Apache VFS (both 1.0 an 2.0-SNAPSHOT) and failed. After some debugging, it turned out that VFS is using compound paths in the CD and file read/write commands. Alfresco's FTP server doesn't seem to accept this.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>For example:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>CD /Alfresco/Documents<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>This must be done against an Alfresco FTP server as:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>CD /<BR />CD Alfresco<BR />CD Documents<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>Same goes for reading and writing; first the working directory needs to be set to the directory of the file and then the file can be accessed, so not:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>open /Alfresco/Documents/test.pdf<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>But:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>CD /<BR />CD Alfresco<BR />CD Documents<BR />open test.pdf<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>As was able to patch the VFS FTP client to work like this, so the issue is workable now and I hope Apache will accept the patch. But maybe Alfresco should considering supporting this behavior…</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:18:23 GMT tbee 2010-03-17T13:18:23Z FTP does not behave as normal servers do https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ftp-does-not-behave-as-normal-servers-do/m-p/227687#M180817 I tried to access the FTP service using Apache VFS (both 1.0 an 2.0-SNAPSHOT) and failed. After some debugging, it turned out that VFS is using compound paths in the CD and file read/write commands. Alfresco's FTP server doesn't seem to accept this.For example:CD /Alfresco/Documents‍This must be don Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:18:23 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ftp-does-not-behave-as-normal-servers-do/m-p/227687#M180817 tbee 2010-03-17T13:18:23Z Re: FTP does not behave as normal servers do https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ftp-does-not-behave-as-normal-servers-do/m-p/227688#M180818 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>That seems reasonable since, according to the FTP standard, CWD is followed by a pathname and pathname can include directory separator characters.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Please raise enhancement requests for the JLAN project in issues.alfresco.com.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:41:34 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ftp-does-not-behave-as-normal-servers-do/m-p/227688#M180818 mrogers 2010-03-17T14:41:34Z Re: FTP does not behave as normal servers do https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ftp-does-not-behave-as-normal-servers-do/m-p/227689#M180819 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Done.</SPAN><BR /><A href="https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/JLAN-104" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/JLAN-104</A></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:58:31 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ftp-does-not-behave-as-normal-servers-do/m-p/227689#M180819 tbee 2010-03-17T14:58:31Z