Need help with FTP URL
"Nik Zapantis, UVic Physics, Victoria BC (604)721-7729" <ZAPANTIS@uvphys.phys.UVic.CA>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 12:04:01 -0800 (PST)
From: "Nik Zapantis, UVic Physics, Victoria BC (604)721-7729" <ZAPANTIS@uvphys.phys.UVic.CA>
To: www-talk@www0.cern.ch
Cc: ZAPANTIS@uvphys.phys.UVic.CA
Message-id: <940128120402.20400b2f@uvphys.phys.UVic.CA>
Subject: Need help with FTP URL
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I am trying to setup an FTP URL as part of my home page, but I am having no
luck getting it to work.
the setup: VMS(5.5-2) httpd server from CERN, Mosaic 2.0 and MULTINET.
Anonymous FTP works fine interactively, but when used in the URL
"ftp://info.phys.uvic.ca/"
Mosaic tells me that either the server is not responding, or the file cannot
be found.
When I run CERN's line-mode WWW browser with Verbose turned on I get the
following error message, _after_ the client successfully connects to the
anonymous FTP server:
...
Tx: RETR /
Rx: 550 %RMS-F-SYN, file specification syntax error
Tx: CWD /
Rx: 550 %RMS-F-SYN, file specification Can't access `ftp://info.phys.uvic.ca/'
...
I have tried putting a directory name in the URL, but it did not help.
If I change the URL to point to a Document, such as
"ftp://info.phys.uvic.ca/test.doc"
the line-mode WWW client fetches the file, but MOSAIC still tells me that it
cannot.
Am I missing something here? Shouldn't I get a directory listing when a
connection is made to the FTP server?
BTW, I am not using an httpd config file, if this is where the problem is.
thanks in advance,
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