#12665: Tab-completion of ftp missing "/" after directories (easy)
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Reporter: humdinger | Owner: nobody
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Applications/Command Line Tools | Version:
| R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by pulkomandy):
@axeld: not really, because FTP does not standardize the format of the
reply to ls. Basically yhe idea is that the remote computer runs whatever
"ls -l" they have and pipes that to the socket. It was not designed to be
machine-parsed.
There is a (very long) piece of code in WebKit (inherited from khtml) for
parsing many of the possible known formats, which we could reuse. But I
think the best way to go about this is porting some better FTP client
(maybe lftp?) as a recipe, and remove this old one from Haiku.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/12665#comment:5>
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