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

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 05:04:21AM -0500, Robert Elz wrote:
> An option would be to simply say that names that contain the EOL sequence
> can't be handled by the protocol at all.
> 
> There is already no way to send them in NLST or LIST, and while it would
> be nice for MLSx to be able to cope (and because the control connection is
> used, MLST can) it isn't as if we'd be giving up all that much by
> simply saying that those filenames can't be transmitted via MLSD.

Agreed. If it turns out to be a problem, we could possibly
come up with something similar to

    C: FEAT
    S: 221-Extensions supported:
       ...
        ENCODING ASCII*;BASE64;URL;
       ...
    S: 221 End.

    C: OPTS ENCODING URL
    S: 200 File names will now be URL encoded.


Marc