Comment 1 Anthony Hunter 2013-06-21 15:48:46 EDT

Likely the service should be updated to ignore symbolic links.

In the case of a symbolic link to a file, the symbolic link is downloaded as a copy of the file.

For example, at the sftp site:
% ln -s index.html default.html

Subsequently the symbolic link default.html is imported as a copy of index.html and Orion contains two identical files.

So the Orion server contains:
% ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 ahunter ahunter 639 Jun 21 15:35 default.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 ahunter ahunter 639 Jun 21 15:20 index.html

In the case of a symbolic link to a folder, the sftp session fails with an exception, halts at that link and an zero length file is left on the Orion server.

For example, at the sftp site:
% ln -s images folder

So the Orion server contains afterwards:
% ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 ahunter ahunter    0 Jun 21 15:37 folder
-rw-r--r-- 1 ahunter ahunter  639 Jun 21 15:20 index.html

Comment 2 John Arthorne 2015-05-05 14:52:16 EDT

Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. For more details see:

https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg03444.html