Topic: "Invalid command: try being more creative"

[xykotik]

  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]

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]

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

[xykotik]

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]

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