MIT Press FTP is misconfigured

[andrei-dubovik]

Two primary ReDIF files on the MIT Press ftp server currently contain incorrect URLs, so the rest of the archive is also not discoverable. The files in question are:

ftp://ftp-mitpress.mit.edu/outgoing/RePEc/mtp/mtparch.rdf
ftp://ftp-mitpress.mit.edu/outgoing/RePEc/tpr/tprarch.rdf

Both files reference

ftp://ftp-mitpress.mit.edu/Anonymous/outgoing/RePEc/...

which does not exist. However,

ftp://ftp-mitpress.mit.edu/outgoing/RePEc/...

does.

Upon inspection, logging it to ftp-mitpress.mit.edu manually, and issuing pwd gives:

ftp ftp-mitpress.mit.edu
Connected to ftp-mitpold.mit.edu.
220 Microsoft FTP Service
Name (ftp-mitpress.mit.edu:andu): anonymous
331 Anonymous access allowed, send identity (e-mail name) as password.
Password:
230 Anonymous user logged in.
Remote system type is Windows_NT.
ftp> pwd
257 "/Anonymous" is current directory.

So, mtparch.rdf and tprarch.rdf reference an internal path instead of an URL. I have contacted MIT Press about this on 2021-07-01, and received a confirmation they are working on this issue on 2021-09-14, but as of now nothing has been resolved. I guess it would be simpler to address this issue on the client side.