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Re: [ftpext] Discouraging use of TCP "urgent data"

"William F. Maton" <wmaton@ottix.net> Wed, 22 September 2010 20:46 UTC

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From: "William F. Maton" <wmaton@ottix.net>
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On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

>> So just to think out loud, I'm wondering now if the FTP client should no 
>> longer depend on ABOR actually working....
>
> Why? Surely most commands already work fine without URG so why does ABOR 
> depend so hard on it?

That's indeed the question I'm asking.  And more importantly, does my 
question influence the FTP spec in any way?  I'm not 100% intimate with 
the FTP spec (and all the implementations) so I don't really know 
conclusively, but I want to find out.

wfms

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