I believe I've found a bug in Total Commander's build-in ftp-client: when viewing the contents of a directory, I noticed that symbolic links to directories are displayed as files instead of directories and are therefore not accessible.
How to reproduce:
- Set up an ftp-connection to ftp.symantec.com
- Log in (anonymous access is allowed)
- The directory "AVDEFS" that is located in the root is a symbolic link; TC displays it as a file.
-- I found that the problem occurs with a lot of FTP-servers that use symbolic links.
I'm using Total Commander CE/Pocket 2.0. My Pocket PC is a T-Mobile MDA Vario, equipped with an original T-Mobile ROM (1.6.2.2). The OS is Windows Mobile 5.1.70.
Of course the problem could be caused by my device rather than TC. Perhaps someone could try to reproduce the problem on his/her PocketPC?
Kind regards,
Thom
Symlinked directories on ftp-servers not accessible
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IIRC there is no way for TC to distinguish between Folders and Files. So it assumes files with names without extensions are folders and those with extensions ar files.
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It's good to hear that the problem is reproducable on a different device under a different OS; I don't trust my T-Mobile ROM one bit. Anyway, I'm planning on flashing my device to a Qtek ROM (equipped with a newer version of WM5) and will check if the problem occurs with this ROM too. If so, I'd say that it is definately TC-related.
Any chance of this bug getting squashed?
Any chance of this bug getting squashed?
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