Fetch Softworks

Error message (6 posts)

• Started 23 years ago by tval
• Latest reply 23 years ago from Jim Matthews

• tval Member

  When I tell Fetch to send an ftp command. I get an error message: "Server file error: Unknown user name after~". However,when I copy the url from Fetch to any of my software, this is what is shown in lieu of the ~: %7.
  Example: ftp://datasync.com/~tval/
  I get back: ftp://datasync.com/%7etval/ Thanks for your help. Tom Valentino

  Posted 23 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  The rules for URLs say that some characters (including ~) should be encoded in hexadecimal to avoid problems; %7e is the hexadecimal code for tilde.

  It would help to know more about the command you are sending. Could you post what's in the Fetch Transcript window after you get this error?

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 23 years ago #

• tval Member

  This is what I posted: ftp://datasync.com/~tval/public_html
  This is what is in the Fetch Transcript window; (Is this the window below?)

  <ftp://datasync.com/bin/>
  <ftp://datasync.com/etc/>
  <ftp://datasync.com/incoming/>
  <ftp://datasync.com/lib/>
  <ftp://datasync.com/private/>
  <ftp://datasync.com/pub/>
  <ftp://datasync.com/usr/>
  <ftp://datasync.com/welcome.msg>

  Tom V

  Posted 23 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  Actually you have to open the Transcript window by choosing "Fetch Transcript" from the Windows menu.

  Posted 23 years ago #

• tval Member

  Here is the Fetch transript window, I hope.

  Connecting to datasync.com port 21 (3/21/01 7:05:43 PM)
  220 shell.datasync.com FTP server (Version wu-2.6.1(1) Tue Jul 18 14:34:52 CDT 2000) ready.
  USER tval
  331 Password required for tval.
  PASS
  230 User tval logged in.
  SYST
  215 UNIX Type: L8
  PWD
  257 "/home/tval" is current directory.
  CWD ~tval
  250 CWD command successful.
  PWD
  257 "/home/tval" is current directory.
  CWD public_html
  250 CWD command successful.
  PWD
  257 "/home/tval/public_html" is current directory.
  PORT 209,205,136,84,48,91
  200 PORT command successful.
  LIST
  150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
  total 240
  -rw-r--r-- 1 tval users 239282 Mar 20 21:19 Tootsietoy4
  226 Transfer complete.
  NOOP
  200 NOOP command successful.

  Posted 23 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  You should be able to see your web site with this URL:

  http://www.datasync.com/~tval/

  Currently I only see one file, Tootsietoy4. If that's an image file make sure it has the right file name suffix (e.g. .jpg for a JPEG image). The URL for that file is:

  http://www.datasync.com/~tval/Tootsietoy4

  Posted 23 years ago #