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

    Date:        Mon, 22 Jul 2002 06:34:12 -0500
    From:        "Gregory A Lundberg" <[email protected]>
    Message-ID:  <[email protected]>

  | To be correct, the FTP cannot handle any name containing ( %x00-1F /
  | %x7F-FF ).

I can assure you that it can, I have done it.   What's more, a whole
legion of hackers, or warez types, or whatever, rely upon the ability
to stick %x08 in file names via ftp... (well, "rely upon" maybe too strong,
"like to use" might be better).

  | 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.

If there's something that needs to be fixed in the specs to make them
clear (aside from that which is already clear - like for FTP the control
channel, and ascii mode data connection, end of line is CR LF and nothing
else at all, regardless of what might be legal sometimes in telnet),
then please let us know.   Especially in the very near term as they apply
to MLSx.

kre