misc/113336: ftpd doesn't handle filenames which contain curly ?brackets

[Oliver Fromme]

The following reply was made to PR misc/113336; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de>
To: freebsd-bugs at FreeBSD.ORG, bug-followup at FreeBSD.ORG, bruce at cran.org.uk
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/113336: ftpd doesn't handle filenames which contain curly ?brackets
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 19:09:02 +0200 (CEST)

 Bruce Cran wrote:
  > When trying to fetch files from a server running the ftpd from
  > /usr/libexec, ftpd apparently removes curly brackets from filenames
  > before trying to read them from the filesystem.
 
 ftpd performs filename globbing, i.e. it interprets
 the wildcards "?", "*" and "[...]", and additionally
 it expands csh-like brace expressions.
 
 In other words:  What you see is expected behaviour,
 not a bug.  Try prepending a backslash in front of
 the braces, i.e.:  get guid_\{1234567890\}_file.txt
 
 (I haven't tested this ...  It might be possible that
 the FTP client removes one level of backslashes, so
 in that case you need to write two backslashes each.)
 
 Best regards
    Oliver
 
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