What's the purpose of trying to fetch non-existing dirs and files ?

[felipesanches]

Here are the error messages I got after scanning ftp.apple.asimov.net:

Removed ‘.listing’.
Wrote HTML-ized index to ‘ftp.apple.asimov.net.html’.
550 NONEXISTINGFILEdgdjahxnedadbacxjbc: No such file or directory
550 NONEXISTINGFILEdgdjahxnedadbacxjbc: No such file or directory
31707010106

This is a result of the lines at:

ftp-queue/ftp_check.py

Lines 134 to 144 in 53c82cc

	try:
	urllib.urlopen('ftp://' + re.search(r'^([^\/]+)', ftp).group(1) + '/NONEXISTINGFILEdgdjahxnedadbacxjbc/')
	except Exception as error:
	dir_not_found = str(error).replace('[Errno ftp error] ', '')
	print(dir_not_found)
	try:
	urllib.urlopen('ftp://' + re.search(r'^([^\/]+)', ftp).group(1) + '/NONEXISTINGFILEdgdjahxnedadbacxjbc')
	except Exception as error:
	file_not_found = str(error).replace('[Errno ftp error] ', '')
	print(file_not_found)

What's the rationale behing trying to fetch non-existing directories and non-existing files on purpose ?

As a user, my first reaction was to think something went wrong.

[felipesanches]

hi there...