I'm going to stay out of the discussion of whether curl should be
changed to handle this case (more like an http URL...).

But, one good workaround is already in the mailing list archives:
  http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2003-04/0226.html

Eric - since you're providing a UI around libcurl, perhaps your original
patch (finding the username at the beginning of the "root folder" and
stripping it out) could be implemented within your UI?

Or alternatively, add an extra "/" into your URL, as in:
 
ftp://justinkahn:tiptoe@ftp.myserver.com//justinkahn/somedir/someotherdi
r/
(I'm not sure, but the extra slash may need to be URL-encoded, as in
..._at_ftp.myserver.com/%2Fjustinkahn/somedir...)

- Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric VERGNAUD
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 12:34 PM

Thanks for your feedback. Please note that I'm using libcurl, not curl,
and
that I'm providing ftp through a very simple end user UI like the
following
one:

 server address: ftp.myserver.com
 server port: 21
 username: justinkahn
 password: tiptoe
 root folder: /justinkahn/somedir/someotherdir/

I have no control on the relative url entered by the user, and in fact,
it
is given to them by their systems administrator.
Received on 2004-05-13