id summary reporter owner description type status priority component resolution keywords cc component_version os os_version 9921 false handling of file attributes in sftp protocol jimmyjjames "filezilla apparently handels file attributes in the sftp protocol by parsing the ""longname"" of the SSH_FXP_NAME resoponse packet. since the format of the longname in sftp version 3 is not specified and the SSH_FXP_NAME contains an ATTRS field which contains explicit attributes for each filename it would make more sence to use them instead of the longname: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-02#section-7 furthermore filezilla parses the longname in a false way. Symbolic links have in the longname the letter ""l"" on the first position instead of ""-"" for files or ""d"" for directories. but filezilla shows symbolic links always as directories regardless of the target it links to, which is wrong." Bug report new normal FileZilla Client sftp, attribute, attr, attrs, attributes, longname Windows win 7 x64