Re: [Bug-wget] New option "--no-list-a"

[Ángel González]

On 25/08/13 14:10, Andrea Urbani wrote:
> Good afternoon,
> some systems (at least info-zip.org) have problems with the ftp command "LIST 
> -a".
> (...)
Thanks for the detailed report. :)

> 150 List started.
> done.
>
>   [<=>  ] 0 --.-K/s in 0s
>
> Closed fd 4
> 226 Transfer completed.
> 2013-08-25 06:40:42 (0.00 B/s) - â.listingâ saved [0]
>
> that means no errors but also an empty list of files.
> Within the attached patch I have added a new parameter, --no-list-a, that tells WGET just 
> to use the "LIST" command.
> If you try the new parameter
I'm not convinced that creating a new option is the solution.
I would prefer that if the first LIST -a returns an empty list, it 
retries just with LIST to detect if it's a server without this
(which is likely, we don't even have . and ..)

Naturally, if there ever was a working LIST -a *or* LIST worked but LIST 
-a failed, would be remembered for the following requests to this host.