On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Charlie Bursell wrote:

> If given an absolute path from which to retrieve a file, how do I retrieve
> the file? For example, the home directory when logged in is /home/mine.
> The given directory to extract files is /somewhere/foo/filename.

ftp://server.com//somewhere/foo/filename

or

ftp://server.com/%2fsomewhere/foo/filename

The latter being how the RFC says it should be done.

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