[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #34976: Plug ins fail to update after WP 4.4 installed

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#34976: Plug ins fail to update after WP 4.4 installed
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 Reporter:  patdundee       |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)    |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  4.4.1
Component:  Filesystem API  |     Version:  4.4
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by Otto42):

 Okay, think I see the problem here. Stems from [34733].

 The code changed from using ftp_rawlist() to ftp_nlist(). These execute
 the LIST or NLST commands, respectively. They both list the contents of
 the directory.

 Historically, LIST has returned a wide variety of formats, and parsing
 those programmatically can be a pain. NLST returns a somewhat more
 standard format, and is intended to only give the list of filenames in a
 directory. Different FTP servers will all have different implementations.

 It appears that in at least some of these cases, your servers don't
 support the -a argument (or perhaps any arguments) being passed to NLST.
 So the normal practice of sending NLST -a to get all files (including
 hidden ones that may have a period at the beginning of their name) does
 not work, while LIST -a worked just fine.

 Not really seeing a solution except to switch back to ftp_rawlist(). It
 didn't have these problems in the past. It did have other problems, but
 maybe those can be solved without ftp_nlist().

 Related: #28013

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