Dell DTK / FTP Server

[J. Epperson]

On Mon, October 6, 2008 09:18, Mark Watts wrote:
>
> On Monday 06 October 2008 13:00:48 Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
[snip]
>> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Mark Watts wrote:
>>> On Sunday 05 October 2008 00:18:27 Jonas Genannt wrote:
>>>> I have some problems to get the Dell DTK from the FTP Server:
>>>>
>>>> http://ftp.us.dell.com/sysman/dtk_2.5_80_Linux.iso
>>>>
>>>> If I try to download the file, I get the following message:
>>>>
>>>> 404 - File or directory not found. The resource you are looking for
>>>>  might have been removed, had its name
>>>> changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
[snip]
>> Have a look at the directory. The FTP daemon is presenting a
>> non-standard directory listing format sometimes (some proprietary M$
format, out of their strategy "to halloween the unix world").
>
> I doubt its an FTP service problem, since the URL uses the HTTP://
protocol...

I agree.  And although whatever-it-is (looks like IIS 7.0) does not
present the directory according to the conventions seen with Apache on
Linux, the html seems valid, other than a missing DOCTYPE, which I don't
think is an actual standards violation.  Not that I'd ever defend M$
business or technical practices....

Anyway, a 404 is a server-side error code, unless the browser is spoofing
it out, which would be a Microsoftian sort of thing to do in a browser....