Re: Nvu -- WEB400


On 23/10/2006, at 5:13 AM, Jon Paris wrote:

Anyone out there using Nvu?
If so - have you been able to get it to publish to OS/400? When I tryitjust says "... unsupported at this time" - it's FTP for goodness sake- how
"supported" does it need to be?

I initially thought this might be caused by the default naming formatbut I have my systems set to use the Unix listing format and namingformat so I installed the Mac version of Nvu and got the same stupiderror. The Publish function in Nvu successfully logs on to the OS/400FTP server and then fails with the error message. My guess is that theFTP client part is checking the message returned by the FTP server todetermine what OS it's using and then complains. OS/400 gives:215 OS/400 is the remote operating system. The TCP/IP version isVxRyMz.

or possibly:
        215- OS/400 is the remote operating system.
while a standard Unix-y server gives:
        Remote system type is UNIX

Rather stupid of Nvu because FTP is FTP. Although FTP servers usuallyhave extras the lowest common denominator is the same. If they don'trecognise the server they should just presume Unix and carry on.

I downloaded the source code to see what they were checking for andimmediately entered the usual "open-source maze". 50 gazillion sourcefiles, no instructions, no decent naming convention, nothing obviouslyrelated to FTP so no idea where it checks for this. Did a source searchfor the error text and got too many possible positives. The code mightbe "free" but my time certainly isn't. I've got better things to dothan stuff about with such an unholy mess.

I suggest you raise it with the authors and get them to remove ormodify the stupid server type check.

You might be able to fake Nvu out by changing the TCP11E6 and TCP1222messages in QTCP/QTCPMSGF to say UNIX instead of OS/400. I haven'ttried this to see if it works. Might possibly need to end and restartFTP server after you do this. Should be dynamic but might be cachedduring start-up.


Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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