Author Topic: "Invalid command: try being more creative" (Read 9164 times)

xykotik · « **on:** January 27, 2011, 10:25:51 AM »

Has anyone seen this in their download.log file?

01/27/11 7:03a (FTP) 200 Type set to I500 Illegal PORT command500 Invalid command: try being more creative

Things seem to be uploading ok, but this message is very intermittent. Maybe once every few days. I just thought the tone of the message was kind of sarcastic so was wondering what WL thought was going on.

wuhu_software · « **Reply #1 on:** January 27, 2011, 10:56:57 AM »

That message is apparently generated by the server that you are connecting to.

In this FTP server source, you can see where the page is generated.

http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/doc/devel-guide/src/src/main.c.html

It appears that if the server cannot parse a request, this is generated along with the error 500 code.

Why such a seemingly snide comment has been allowed to exist as a standard FTP server response for an error 500 is a bit of a mystery to me.

Bushman · « **Reply #2 on:** January 27, 2011, 11:15:06 AM »

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/29/404-error-pages-one-more-time/

xykotik · « **Reply #3 on:** January 27, 2011, 03:06:36 PM »

Bushman, that link sent me to pop-up purgatory and locked IE8!

The humor on my 404 page is a little harder to spot, but it is there if you look really carefully...
http://mycompany.name/bushman-doesnt-exist

Bushman · « **Reply #4 on:** January 27, 2011, 03:25:28 PM »

Well your problem is not Smashing Magazine (it's a legit web design house) but Internet Exploder 8

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