FTP/SFTP: report malformed cap at login instead of use-time #1965

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zooko · 2013-05-06T15:15:37Z

zooko commented

2013-05-06 15:15:37 +00:00

I was experimenting with the SFTP server and I accidentally pasted a malformed (truncated) cap into the config. It reports this reasonably well when I try to use it:

lftp acct@127.0.0.1:~> ls
ls: Access failed: cannot list an unknown cap as a directory. Upgrading the gateway to a later Tahoe-LAFS version may help

(Actually that's not a great error message — it should tell me that this is a malformed cap, not a cap of an unknown type — but that's the topic of a different ticket.)

It would be better if it reported this error as soon as I login rather than waiting until I try to "ls" something.

I was experimenting with the SFTP server and I accidentally pasted a malformed (truncated) cap into the config. It reports this reasonably well when I try to use it: ``` lftp acct@127.0.0.1:~> ls ls: Access failed: cannot list an unknown cap as a directory. Upgrading the gateway to a later Tahoe-LAFS version may help ``` (Actually that's not a great error message — it should tell me that this is a malformed cap, not a cap of an unknown type — but that's the topic of a different ticket.) It would be better if it reported this error as soon as I login rather than waiting until I try to "ls" something.

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daira commented

2013-05-06 20:11:21 +00:00

The issue of reporting invalid cap URIs as if they were unknown, is #1112. (That ticket currently describes the issue only for the CLI, but it's the same underlying problem.)

tahoe-lafs changed title from ~~FTP/SFTP/FUSE: report malformed cap at login instead of use-time~~ to FTP/SFTP: report malformed cap at login instead of use-time

2013-05-06 20:11:21 +00:00

daira commented

2013-05-06 20:15:24 +00:00

The gateway could report the invalid URI at start-up time as well as at login.

zooko commented

2013-05-06 21:04:42 +00:00

Replying to daira:

The gateway could report the invalid URI at start-up time as well as at login.

Good idea, thanks! And thanks for the link to #1112.

Replying to [daira](/tahoe-lafs/trac-2024-07-25/issues/1965#issuecomment-91678): > The gateway could report the invalid URI at start-up time as well as at login. Good idea, thanks! And thanks for the link to #1112.

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