Re: error 500 problem

[Michael Albinus]

Christian Lynbech <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Christian,

> If I try to do a dired on this sort of filename:
>
>     /ftp:address@hidden:/
>
> I get this error
>
>     byte-code: FTP Error: USER request failed: 500 This security
> scheme is not implemented

[...]

> The connection is up, so if I delete the dired buffer and tries doing th
> dired again, I am in and can continue doing my stuff.
>
> I am a little unsure what the error 500 is and what happens that
> triggers it.

Don't know either. But according to the traces you have shown, it could
be ignored.

> Is this actually an ange-ftp issue (the info manual seems to say that
> ftp is forwarded to ange-ftp) and does anybody happens to know how to
> avoid the problem?

ange-ftp has `ange-ftp-skip-msgs', which collects the messages to be
ignored. Some 5xx messages are already there.

Could you, please, try the following patch:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
~/src/emacs$ bzr diff
=== modified file 'lisp/net/ange-ftp.el'
--- lisp/net/ange-ftp.el        2013-01-01 09:11:05 +0000
+++ lisp/net/ange-ftp.el        2013-01-11 07:26:11 +0000
@@ -720,6 +720,7 @@
          "^Data connection \\|"
          "^local:\\|^Trying\\|^125 \\|^550-\\|^221 .*oodbye\\|"
           "^500 .*AUTH\\|^KERBEROS\\|"
+          "^500 This security scheme is not implemented\\|"
           "^504 Unknown security mechanism\\|"
          "^530 Please login with USER and PASS\\|" ; non kerberized vsFTPd
          "^534 Kerberos Authentication not enabled\\|"

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Best regards, Michael.