Ftp-WG: Proposed changes to MLST -15 (will be -16)
"Gregory A Lundberg" <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Jul 2002 06:34:12 -0500
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> An option would be to simply say that names that contain the EOL sequence > can't be handled by the protocol at all. To be correct, the FTP cannot handle any name containing ( %x00-1F / %x7F-FF ). The use of UTF-8 encoding for non-ASCII characters is MARGINALLY workable; the chances of failure are low enough that there seems little reason to worry about it as an implementor, but from a protocol level the current specifications are insufficient to ensure it will work without error.