Re: PR 43133 should be closed

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:21:07 -0500 (EST)
    From:        Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <202602280121.UAA06682%Stone.Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>

  | FTP clients that, by default, do a SYST and then, for some returned strings
  | (including almost everything extant today), switch to TYPE I.

You are indeed quite correct, everything I was seeing is the client, too smart
by a long way, but never mind.

So I have changed my mind, this would all have been a client issue all the time.

  | 959 specifies a STAT command.

So it does, that one I had forgotten though I suspect I have used it in the past.

  | but "quote STAT" works, and, for my test connection, resulted in

Indeed it does, and while a modern NetBSD ftpd returns lots more than your test
server, it did illustrate that the server was in ascii mode, and only changes to
binary mode with a RETR command (just before it) based upon client action, and
changes back (again, based upon client action) just before a LIST command.

  | > Right now I see nothing needing fixing (or not in this area).
  | I am inclined to agree.

So that is definitely true now - my only lack of understanding is how (in 2010)
Martin managed to get ftp.netbsd.org to send DIR output in binary mode, but
ftp.de.netbsd.org not to.   Doesn't matter any more now though.

kre