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And it surely beat the other common alternatives at the time for directory listings: raw /bin/ls like formats for FTP or a HTML dirindex for HTTP



Did it though? At least microsoft usually managed to parse ftp and html dirindexes. The bugs they had in their webdav clients (see link in parent post) was something else... incorrect/lacking xml entity handling that almost indicates substr'ing for "&" instead of using a real parser, and converting percent-escaped utf8 to percent-escaped latin1..?! You almost have to try to sabotage on purpose to get bugs like these.




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