Ftp-WG: to mlst-16 from mlst-15

    Date:        Wed, 2 Oct 2002 15:46:09 -0500
    From:        Pat LaVarre <[email protected]>
    Message-ID:  <[email protected]>

  | Apart from seeming artifacts of pagination, the
  | differences I see are:

Thanks for that...   And yes, I believe those are the changes
(and I think they'd all been mentioned on the list before, at least
in principle).

  | + This document updates the File Transfer Protocol
  | - This document amends the File Transfer Protocol

That one was actually an IESG(AD) directive...

  | = 2.2. Pathnames
  | + Note: for pathnames transferred over a data
  | + connection, there is no way to represent a pathname
  | + containing the characters CR and LF in sequence, [...]

This was discussed at some length on the list.

  | = 3. File Modification Time (MDTM)
  | + Because the User and server FTPs' clocks are not
  | + necessarily synchronised, [...]

This was another IESG (AD?) request.

  | = 6.1. TVFS File Names
  | + [...] Note that
  | + the two character sequence CR LF occurring in a file
  | + name will make that name impossible to transmit over
  | + a data connection. Consequently, it should be
  | + avoided, or if that is impossible to achieve, it
  | + MUST be encoded in some reversible way.

As above.

  | = 7.7.8. A stress test of case (in)dependence
  | + Server-FTP is permitted to return them in any
  | + case desired.
  | - Server-FTP is permitted to return them in any
  | - case they desire.

Grammar...  (hardly a change of substance...)

  | = 11. Security Considerations
  | + Server FTP should take care not to reveal sensitive
  | + information about files to unauthorised parties. [...]

Another IESG (AD) request.

  | +12. Normative References
  | -12. References

A pre-emptive strike (attempt to avoid a later holdup...)   That one
actually wasn't ever mentioned on the list, now I think of it.  If
someone wants to determine that any of the refs aren't normative, be
my guest...

  | = Editors' Addresses

Definitely not a substantive change...

  | P.S. Courtesy Google of this list I remembered:
  | ftp://munnari.oz.au/internet-drafts/

Yes.   I tend to keep ancient copies of anything I find personally
interesting, sometimes old copies of lots...

  | Sun's `jar -xvf` and Microsoft's Win XP choked over
  | these .Z and .gz compressions, but Mac OS X just plain worked.

The .Z is ancient unix "compress" (LZ) compression.   .gz is gzip.

Now munnari has more horsepower, and less work to do than it used to
have, I will probably (eventually) enable decompress on the fly for
these files, so you can just fetch without the ".Z" or ".gz" and you'd
get the TXT version returned.   (I guess I could also make it do that
if someone attempted an ACSII mode file transfer, but that might just
violate the principle of least surprise, even if it would be more useful
than just transferring a useless hunk of mangled data...)

kre

ps: the "IESG (AD)" above is because it isn't always clear which messages
are coming from the IESG as a whole, which from a part of it, or which just
from the AD (not that there's any reason it has to be either).