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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Huber" <[email protected]>
To: "FTPEXT Working Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 4:33 AM
Subject: Ftp-WG: Proposed changes to MLST -15 (will be -16)


> On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 10:54:03PM -0500, Robert Elz wrote:
> >| 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.
> >
> > This is a different issue entirely, but it is a good point.
> > Is this a problem that we need to solve?   If not, then we
> > should probably at least make mention of it somewhere.
>
> It should be addressed, but I'm not sure about the best
> solution. Non-shortest UTF-8 is supposed to be illegal, so
> it might be advisable to adopt parts of the NVT processing
> for the MLSD data connection: transmit <NUL> after <CR>
> unless that <CR> starts the regular EOL sequence.

The parts of NVT processing you're refering to indicate that <CR> <NUL> is
the Telnet End-of-Line.