Re: special characters in FTP URL

Hi!

> I´m having problems with encoding special characters in the FTP URI.
>
> The URL I´m trying to access has a username with a slash in it, such as
> user/name.

And which server/OS will accept that? What for? Just interested...


> So the wget command I´m using is:
> wget.exe --passive-ftp --glob=on
> ftp://user%2Fname:password@ip-adress/*.zip
>
> However, wget writes:
> --10:08:04-- ftp://userFname:*password*@ipadress/*.zip
> => `.listing´
> Connecting to ip-adress:21 .... connected.
> Logging in as userFname ...
> Login incorrect.
> unlink: No such file or directory

What version are you using? 1.8.2 works on linux, here is the test:

$wget ftp://longuser%2Fname:my-email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/pub/README
--21:35:41--  ftp://longuser/name:*password*@ftp.kernel.org/pub/README
           => `README'
Resolving ftp.kernel.org... done.
Connecting to ftp.kernel.org[204.152.189.116]:21... connected.
Logging in as longuser/name ...
Login incorrect.

I needed two RFCs to read and 4 times to run through the debugger to 
understand that it works... Next time, first I will check what posters 
are saying...


>
> unlink: No such file or directory
What is that??


You may try to use quotes around the URL. Like:

wget 'ftp://longuser%2Fname:my-email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/pub/README'

I think your Windoze might be messing up %2 environment variable :-) if 
it is valid name.

Kalin.

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