[issue848] bin-install test

[Justin C. Sherrill]

On Sun, November 25, 2007 9:57 pm, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
>> but apparently our ftp command drops to an interactive prompt instead of
>> giving us the list if theURL is an ftp one.  So if we use ftp server
>> for one of our bin-install sources, we need to port the fix from
>> NetBSD as their command does the job unlike ours.
>
> Sorry, the same thing happened to NetBSD version; probably I made a pasto
> when I was trying wget or curl:

Yep - it looks like it's how the ftp command understands the URL to a
directory; instead of downloading the content as with a HTTP URL, it
navigates to that spot and the last thing it does is 'PWD'.

Watching it with tcpdump on two different ftpds shows this.  Returning a
directory listing when supplied a URL seems like the 'correct' behavior,
but I'm biased.  I'll mail Luke Mewburn and ask.