Some notes about this project

[blindacai]

Heard it's similar to a1, but this time the server needs to parse client's commands and send back responses
We can test it using a1 or netcat

• In /test/server.c, we will mostly look at accept() and send()

• How to compile and run C in Unix:
  gcc -o out some_name.c
  ./out

• How to debug?

• Everything should be compiled in Unix
  Be careful when look up usage of C functions. Many only apply to Windows
  A reliable source is to use command: man <function_name>, choose 3

• we only deal with one client here

• eventually should test it with client: ftp ftp.cs.ubc.ca(should be localhost?) 3500 (don't choose port below 1024)

• raw ftp command reference

• socket workflow

• You might find the Unix library routines strncmp(), toupper(), or the whole set of regex routines helpful

[blindacai]

update:

seems we can't test it using a1 since server runs on Dept Unix

[blindacai]

testing it with ftp -d localhost 3600

response needs to be exact the same

[blindacai]

cd local/../ will remain in the current dir, but it's not allowed in our code

[blindacai]

nlist

is the client side command for ftp to show the directory listing