FZ Server 1.5.1 Directory Listing fails

[Dieter]

A client app submits "LIST SESS*.REQ". FZ 1.5.1 answers: "550 Couldn't open the file or directory".
(there was a file SESS0099.REQ in the user's home-dir (Native path)).

I tried to track the problem down using Sysinternals Procmon and compared it to FZ 0.9.60.2: obviously Fz 0.9.60.2 executes the "LIST SESS*.REQ" differently to FZ 1.5.1. (see attached files)

Attached files should clarify the issue.

[Dieter]

Procmon file of FZ 1.5.1 executing the LIST SESS*.REQ

[Dieter]

FZ 0.90.6.2 executing the LIST SESS*.REQ

[Dieter]

FZ 1.5.1 Error Message "550 Couldn't open file or directory"

[Tim Kosse]

Is there actually a directory named "SESS*.REQ"? Note that in Windows, asterisks cannot be part of a file or directory name, so obviously this command always fails.

Note that the behavior of the old 0.9.x server is not compliant with the FTP specifications.

[Dieter]

dg

[Dieter]

The FTP-RFC does not explicitly address globbing so a server is not required to do globbing. But it would be very, very nice if FZ 1.5.1 would keep supporting it.

Thanks.

[Tim Kosse]

Impossible, it would leave ambiguities in how commands are processed. In particular, the behavior would change depending on whether a file or directory with asterisks actually exists. Since FZ 1.x is cross-platform, this is a very real possibility.