Bugs item #1364835, was opened at 2005-11-23 18:07
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>Category: documentation
>Group: bad behaviour
Status: Open
>Resolution: Accepted
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Tom Wood (woodts)
>Assigned to: Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Summary: curl drops end of URL if URL references a directory

Initial Comment:
curl-7.13.1-3 in Fedora Core 4, possibly elsewhere,
doesn't properly handle the end of the URL when the URL
ends with a directory not terminated with a "/".
For example,

given that ftp://whatever/wherever/blah is a directory,
curl -l -s --disable-epsv ftp://whatever/wherever/blah
returns the directory contents of
ftp://whatever/wherever, not the contents of the
ftp://whatever/wherever/blah directory. In fact,
substitute anything for blah, even something that does
not exist, and you get the same result as above. You
have to add a trailing "/" to get the directory listing
of the desired directory.

Please note that the command switches -s and
--disable-epsv may not be part of the problem here.
I've included them for completeness in that they're
part of my test case and may have an impact.

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>Comment By: Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Date: 2005-11-23 19:59

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Yes, this is a matter of fact how curl is designed to
work... I guess it can/should be (better) documented.

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