Enhancment: control encoding choosing UTF-8 based on server

Question

Hi,

as per http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2640.txt a FTP server can indicate that it sends/receives filenames in UTF-8. Currently, the library can only be manually configured with a certain control encoding before you cannot. Thus, I would have to disconnect and reconnect after running the feature command and discovering UTF8 support.

Can the library enhanced to immediately run a FEAT after connect and set its encoding automatically?

Thanks
Thomas

Answer 1

Useful idea, thank you. Have you found any servers that support returning UTF8 from FEAT?

Answer 2

Very few actually. The most notably exception being FileZilla server, which does support it. The majority just does support MDTM, SIZE, REST STREAM, PASV.

Also ftp.microsoft.com supports it.

Thomas

Answer 3

Mac OS 10.5 supports it