Ftp-WG: Proposed changes to MLST -15 (will be -16)

Marc Huber <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Jul 2002 22:12:16 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ftpext
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 05:25:21AM -0500, Robert Elz wrote:
> Does anyone really believe that we need to say something about NVT
> processing in section 7?

For MLST, <CR><LF> within a file name is transmitted as
<CR><NUL><LF>. However, that only covers the control
connection. For the data connection, no such escape
mechanism exists, and transmitting a file name containing
the <CR><LF> sequence as-is in response to MLSD is
guaranteed to cause trouble.

Marc




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