Square brackets in Directory names

[Jens Viebig <jv...@como.com>]

Hello list,

I have some problems when using square brackets in directory names like this

/Content/directory/directory[2]

ftpserver checks for [ in the ListArgumentParser and throws an error.
Im still using ftpserver-M3 release since i had no time to adapt to the 
API changes in the new versions.

As client i'm using jakarta commons-vfs which uses commons-net internally.

I took out the check for "[" -signs in the ListArgumentParser and now my 
client works but i don't know what side effects this has. Can anybody 
tell me what this check is useful for ? I have tested my client against 
Filezilla Server which seems not to have issues with "[" characters in 
directory names.

Any other suggestions other than hacking the ftpserver-source ?

Regards
Jens

Re: Square brackets in Directory names

[Niklas Gustavsson <ni...@protocol7.com>]

It adds support for [abc] regexp patterns for LIST and NLST. It's been
around since before my involvement in the project, so I'm not sure on
the background. Also, I'm not sure if there are actually any clients
that use these kinds of advanced globbing patterns. Does anyone else
know?

/niklas

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Jens Viebig <jv...@como.com> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I have some problems when using square brackets in directory names like this
>
> /Content/directory/directory[2]
>
> ftpserver checks for [ in the ListArgumentParser and throws an error.
> Im still using ftpserver-M3 release since i had no time to adapt to the API
> changes in the new versions.
>
> As client i'm using jakarta commons-vfs which uses commons-net internally.
>
> I took out the check for "[" -signs in the ListArgumentParser and now my
> client works but i don't know what side effects this has. Can anybody tell
> me what this check is useful for ? I have tested my client against Filezilla
> Server which seems not to have issues with "[" characters in directory
> names.
>
> Any other suggestions other than hacking the ftpserver-source ?
>
> Regards
> Jens
>
>