The tool now collects its own report
hw ls and hw pull, over the file service
the crate brought with it. hw send no longer ends by
telling somebody to go and fetch the report; it names the command that
does. (D190)
Proved against a Python file service that advertises
10.0.0.1 for its data connections while listening on
loopback: a listing with sizes and a marked unparseable line, a report
fetched, a 256-byte file containing every byte value returned byte for
byte, and a missing file refused with the server's own words and exit
1.
The surprise was the shell, not the code
hw pull /data/notes.bin failed with 550 no such
file while a hand-typed RETR /data/notes.bin against
the same server succeeded. Git Bash had rewritten the argument into a
Windows path before the tool saw it, so the console was asked for
something that had never existed and answered correctly.
MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1.
This file already warns about that for multipass. It is worth writing down a second time, because the failure arrived wearing the clothes of a client bug and the client was right.