changelog of the current development status, as one or more of these problems
may have been fixed since this was written!
+* libcurl ignores empty path parts in FTP URLs, whereas RFC1738 states that
+ such parts should be sent to the server as 'CWD ' (without an argument).
+ The only exception to this rule, is that we knowingly break this if the
+ empty part is first in the path, as then we use the double slashes to
+ indicate that the user wants to reach the root dir (this exception SHALL
+ remain even when this bug is fixed).
+
* 1) libcurl does a POST
2) receives a 100-continue
3) sends away the POST