How do FTP servers handle rename to an existing file?

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Published on 2009-09-10T09:19:24Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 8:13 UTC
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How do FTP servers normaly handle rename to a file that aready exist? That is, will the existing to-file be overwritten or will I get an error? Is there some specification about how FTP servers should handle this, or is it OS or implementation dependent?

vsftpd on Linux seems to overwrite, with FileZilla on Vista I get 550 file exists...

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