From 8f646eef450b16da1303c4183c77ca8bf2a9e3e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:09:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add 'FTP ASCII transfers' here, since they seem to be frequently attempted these days...! --- docs/KNOWN_BUGS | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS index 3634154d2..92b07f9c7 100644 --- a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS +++ b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS @@ -3,6 +3,15 @@ join in and help us correct one or more of these! Also be sure to check the changelog of the current development status, as one or more of these problems may have been fixed since this was written! +21. FTP ASCII transfers do not follow RFC959. They don't convert the data + accordingly (not for sending nor for receiving). RFC 959 section 3.1.1.1 + clearly describes how this should be done: + + The sender converts the data from an internal character representation to + the standard 8-bit NVT-ASCII representation (see the Telnet + specification). The receiver will convert the data from the standard + form to his own internal form. + 20. valgrind errors occur too often when 'make test' is used. It is because too many third-party libs and tools have problems. When curl is built without --disable-shared, the testing is done with a front-end script which