[Zope] can't ftp to Zope

[Dieter Maurer]

Tim Wilson writes:
 > I can connect to Zope via ftp with no trouble. The problem is that I can't
 > put any HTML-formatted files. I can transfer images with no trouble,
 > even an MS Word file worked OK. When I try to transfer files with HTML
 > formatting (with or without an .html extension) I apparently don't have
 > write permission on the remote server. WebDAV puts fail similarly with a
 > 500 internal server error.  The system is running Zope 2.5.1 and python
 > 2.1.3 (Debian).
A long time ago, someone posted an announcement for a patch
that provides better FTP error messages (search for "FTP error"
or "FTP errors" or "FTM messages").
It may help you to better understand what goes wrong.


Dieter