id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	blockedby	blocking	branch_state	votes
1448	FTP protocol in Midnight Commander is unusable [metabug]	birdie		"1. It doesn't support many FTP servers.

2. It doesn't support servers with non ISO8859-1 locale (it can support them if remote server locale matches local system locale but that's not a solution).

3. When you hit F5/F6 (copy/move) button while being at a remote FTP directory MC rereads the remote FTP directory which is not necessary.

4. After *copying* a file from FTP server a remote FTP directory is reread which is not necessary (and even detrimental since a remote directory can contain thousands of files).

5. If MC has lost connection with an FTP server, it doesn't reconnect automatically.

5. If MC has lost the connection with an FTP server, it returns to a .. directory, not . directory (say you were in ftp://server.com/pub/files, after reconnect MC will show you ftp://server.com/pub directory)

6. MC is unable to do/complete any operations with a remote FTP server, after the connection has been lost (F5/F6/F8/etc).
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Feature requests:

1. There's no directory cache in MC, please, implement it.

2. Implement aggressive directory cache in MC, so that when you copy/move/create/remove file from/to remote FTP server, MC mentally calculates the operation result and shows it *without* rereading a remote directory.

3. Implement FTP hotlist where you can set up

a) Remote FTP server filenames codepage
b) Active/Passive FTP
c) Aggressive caching
d) Usage of firewall/proxy

4. Implement HTTP Proxy support (at least squid)"	defect	new	major	Future Releases	mc-vfs	master						no branch