flexfax: browsing recvq with a web browser (was Re: :4559 ftp port)

[Jeff Murphy <jcmurphy@smurfland.cit.buffalo.edu>]

Sascha Ottolski <alzhimer@cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:

> asparks@nss.harris.com said:
> > Try pointing your web browser at it... ftp://your.hylafax.com:4559/
> > recvq/ -Alan
> 
> sure I did, but it looks like this:
> 
> Current directory is /recvq
> 
> Up to higher level directory
>  -rw-r--
>  -rw-r--



yes. i get the same buggy behaviour when trying to browse the recvq
directory via a web browser. apparently, the formatting for that 
directory is non-standard. browsers expect the results of "dir" to
produce predictable output. using "ncftp" shows that hfaxd does not
produce the expected "dir" format for the recvq directory.

myhost:/> dir
drwxr-x   2        5      512 Mar  4 21:42 bin
drwxr-x   2        5      512 Mar 16 17:06 client
drwxr-x   2        5     1024 Mar  4 21:37 config
drwxr-x   2        5      512 Mar  4 21:43 dev
drwxr-x   2        5      512 Mar  4 21:46 etc
drwxr-x   2        5      512 Mar  5 18:25 info
drwxr-x   2        5     7680 Mar 16 15:16 log
drwxr-x   2        5      512 Mar 13 17:22 recvq
drwxr-x   2        5      512 Mar  4 21:44 status
drwx---   2        5      512 Mar 16 15:17 sendq
drwx---   2        5     6656 Mar 16 15:17 doneq
drwx---   2        5     9728 Mar 16 15:02 docq
drwx---   2        5      512 Mar 16 15:02 tmp
drwx---   2        5      512 Mar  4 20:20 pollq
drwx---   2        5      512 Mar  4 20:20 archive
-r--r--   1      330     1233 Mar  4 21:35 COPYRIGHT
myhost:/> cd recvq
myhost:/recvq> dir
-rw----    1  5         716  555 1234 Fri05PM fax00002.tif
myhost:/recvq> 


hfaxd attempts to keep the number of fields the same, probably hoping to
fool some parsers.. but this fails on netscape at least.

jeff