Excerpts from direct: 17-Mar-93 Re: Agenda of the MIME Work.. Nathaniel
Borenstein(_at_)thu (549*)
(Here's a question: when using "access-type=anon-ftp", should one put the
leading '/' on the directory spec, or leave it off?)
Are there any circumstances in which it would make a difference? I
think most anon-ftp implementations could probably handle either. But
Normally, the pathname after the host is relative to the ~ftp directory;
that is, the directory you connect to by default when you use ftp.
However, there are a number of ftp servers which map absolute pathnames,
so that you have to first connect via ftp, then cd to something, like
/usr1/ftpfiles/fbh/, before you can access somefile.text. This path is
*not* a subdirectory of ~ftp. You can see the possible confusion... I
suppose you should put the leading slash if the directory is absolute,
not if not.
Perhaps someone who knows more about FTP servers could inform us?
Bill