[Zope] strange ftp problem

[Markus Schaber]

Hi,

Is there nobody who has any Idea?

Markus Schaber wrote:

> I experience strange problems when fetching binary files out of the
> zope database.
> 
> I downloaded it several, all versions differ, and are different from
> the original (downloading per http works fine, it gives the correct
> file).
> Example: 
> 
> FTP commandline (after logging in and changing working directory):
> ftp> put putty.exe
> local: putty.exe remote: putty.exe
> 227 Entering Passive Mode (134,60,17,60,187,111).
> 150 Opening Binary connection for putty.exe
> 100% |*************************************|   220 KB  880.30 KB/s   
> 00:00 ETA
> 226 Transfer complete.
> 225280 bytes sent in 00:00 (443.89 KB/s)
> ftp> get putty.exe putty2.exe
> local: putty2.exe remote: putty.exe
> 227 Entering Passive Mode (134,60,17,60,187,117).
> 150 Opening Binary mode data connection for file 'putty.exe'
> 100% |*************************************|   220 KB    1.29 MB/s   
> --:-- ETA
> 226 Transfer complete
> 225517 bytes received in 00:00 (981.69 KB/s)
> ftp> get putty.exe putty3.exe
> local: putty3.exe remote: putty.exe
> 227 Entering Passive Mode (134,60,17,60,187,120).
> 150 Opening Binary mode data connection for file 'putty.exe'
> 100% |*************************************|   220 KB    1.29 MB/s   
> --:-- ETA
> 226 Transfer complete
> 225517 bytes received in 00:00 (1.17 MB/s)
> 
> Then, again in the shell:
> total 696
> -rw-------   1 ms1      users      225280 Jan 16 11:58 putty.exe
> -rw-------   1 ms1      users      225517 Jan 16 12:11 putty2.exe
> -rw-------   1 ms1      users      225517 Jan 16 12:11 putty3.exe
> ms1@wsl12:~/test > diff putty2.exe putty3.exe
> Binary files putty2.exe and putty3.exe differ
> 
> Also all damaged versions share the same length, it is not likely to
> be a line feed conversion problem (accidental ascii transfer), because
> this would give identically damaged files.
> 
> This happens with different types of binary files (I tested exe and
> zip, some of my users had problems with wav), but it seems to work
> fine with txt, html and images. It appeared at least with linux
> command line ftp, wsftp and IE5, so it is likely to be a server
> problem. Uploading can be with ftp or http, download per ftp produces
> damaged files.
> 
> I use the debian version of Zope 2.4.2 (source release, python 2.1,
> linux2), python 2.1.1, linux2), installed products are - apart from
> the standard products - the HTMLDocument 0.9 and my own product (which
> does not fiddle anything with FTP at all).


Markus

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