Ftp-WG: http://cr.yp.to/ftp.html

Great fun, thanks.  That page has Google weight: it's
the first hit of:

http://www.google.com/search?q=ftp+actually+works

I see:

"These pages are designed as a reference for the File
Transfer Protocol (FTP). Unlike the IETF FTP
specifications, these pages describe how FTP actually
works (and doesn't work) in practice. Let me know if
you encounter any interoperability problems not
described here. 

And also:

http://cr.yp.to/ftp/filesystem.html#pathname

"An encoded pathname is a string of bytes not
containing \012. It normally represents the pathname
obtained by replacing each \000 in the encoded
pathname with \012. However, ...

Pat LaVarre

-----Original Message----- 
From: D. J. Bernstein [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wed 12/18/2002 1:11 PM 
To: FTPEXT Working Group 
Cc: 
Subject: Ftp-WG: PASV and Snap servers

Jim Matthews writes:
> Should clients make the data connection first and
> then send the data-transferring command?

Yes. See http://cr.yp.to/ftp/browsing.html for the
correct client procedure. See
http://cr.yp.to/ftp/pipelining.html for a picture of
the maximum possible FTP pipelining.

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of
Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Chicago



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