[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #2036: accept trailing slashes on directory cap URIs

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#2036: accept trailing slashes on directory cap URIs
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     Reporter:  daira          |      Owner:
         Type:  defect         |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal         |  Milestone:  undecided
    Component:  code-frontend  |    Version:  1.10.0
   Resolution:                 |   Keywords:  usability cli wui
Launchpad Bug:                 |
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Comment (by daira):

 (23:08:24) zooko: Well, what happens when you use the "sftp" client to
 connect to localhost port 8022?

 (23:09:14) rhaeder: it says connected

 (23:09:31) rhaeder: remote readdir("/"): Permission denied

 (23:09:41) rhaeder: a simple "ls"

 (23:10:09) zooko: Okay, the Tahoe-LAFS process that runs that SFTP server
 -- does it also listen on a web port?

 (23:10:19) rhaeder: yes

 (23:10:41) zooko: Does the welcome page that it shows on that web port say
 that it is connected to an introducer and at least one storage server?

 (23:10:51) rhaeder: the same URI gives me my storage directory

 (23:10:58) zooko: I wonder what "permission denied" means there...

 (23:11:27) zooko: Yeah, double-check whether the cap in the SFTP passwords
 file is the same as the cap you're using in the WUI.

 [...]

 (23:13:02) zooko: So the cap that it uses when you do "ls" is something it
 looks up from its accounts file.

 (23:13:28) zooko: The username and password that you use to login to the
 SFTP Server, it looks up that username in the accounts file and gets the
 cap from there. Then it uses that cap.

 (23:13:53) zooko: It sounds like you want that to be the same cap that you
 are using when you browse your storage directory using the WUI.

 (23:13:59) zooko: Is that cap written into the SFTP accounts file?

 (23:14:24) rhaeder: ah, my private/accounts file contained a trailing
 slash at the cap URI

 (23:14:28) zooko: Aha!

 (23:14:31) zooko: So that was a bad error message.

 (23:14:48) rhaeder: working! :)

 (23:14:48) zooko: It said "Permission denied". Useless! It should have
 said something like "This isn't a well-formed cap."

 (23:14:50) zooko: Right?

 (23:14:53) zooko: Yay!

 (23:15:07) rhaeder: yes, that message would be much better understandable
 :)

 (23:15:18) zooko: Please send email to tahoe-dev at tahoe-lafs.org saying
 that you got it working, because Greg Troxel isn't on IRC, and he
 disbelieves that people use Tahoe-LAFS with FUSE. ;-)

 (23:15:31) rhaeder: ;)

 (23:15:34) zooko: I'll open an issue ticket about that error message if
 there isn't already one...

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