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Stefano
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:55 pm    Post subject: vsftpd and banner_file
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Hi,
I'm using vsftpd as FTP server. I have configured the vsftpd.conf
and specified a line with banner_file. I'm using a Windows XP client
machine for downloading. If I use ftp from command line the
"banner_file" it's showed correctly. If I try to download from
internet explorer or firefox (ftp://myftpsite.mydomain.com) it
doesn't
show the banner. Do I need to specify other parameters for ftp://
download ?

Thanks in advance
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Allen Kistler
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 3:00 pm    Post subject: Re: vsftpd and banner_file [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Stefano wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> .... If I try to download from
> internet explorer or firefox (ftp://myftpsite.mydomain.com) it
> doesn't
> show the banner. Do I need to specify other parameters for ftp://
> download ?

Browsers throw away the banner. There's nothing you can do.
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Stefano
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:20 am    Post subject: Re: vsftpd and banner_file [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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> Browsers throw away the banner. There's nothing you can do.

Thanks for your reply.
Is there any other way to display a warning for browsers ?
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Allen Kistler
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:19 am    Post subject: Re: vsftpd and banner_file [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Stefano wrote:
>> Browsers throw away the banner. There's nothing you can do.
>
> Thanks for your reply.
> Is there any other way to display a warning for browsers ?

There's an informal convention to make the first file in any directory
listing be 00readme.txt or something similar. Put your caveats in that.
It's up to the visitor to read the file on his own, though.
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Stefano
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:47 pm    Post subject: Re: vsftpd and banner_file [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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> There's an informal convention to make the first file in any directory
> listing be 00readme.txt or something similar. Put your caveats in that.
> It's up to the visitor to read the file on his own, though.

Thanks again
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Netlurker
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:24 pm    Post subject: Re: vsftpd and banner_file [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:55:17 -0700, Stefano wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm using vsftpd as FTP server. I have configured the vsftpd.conf
> and specified a line with banner_file. I'm using a Windows XP client
> machine for downloading. If I use ftp from command line the
> "banner_file" it's showed correctly. If I try to download from internet
> explorer or firefox (ftp://myftpsite.mydomain.com) it doesn't
> show the banner. Do I need to specify other parameters for ftp://
> download ?
>
> Thanks in advance

Use a ".message" file in whatever directory you want to see the banner
displayed for (see the dirmessage_enable) in conf file .

- Chris
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