Re: [ftpext] HOST back to FTPEXT2 WG for more review

Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Fri, 22 July 2011 20:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ftpext] HOST back to FTPEXT2 WG for more review
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On Thu, 14 Jul 2011, Anthony Bryan wrote:

> if you have reviewed HOST before, please review any changes in the past few 
> months. if you have comments, please make sure that they have been addressed 
> to your satisfaction and state whether you are for or against the approval 
> of HOST (even if you have in the past).

I got back to this spec now and I still think the HOST should accept a port 
number and with the -03's new section 3.2.2 where it says:

    If a user-PI sends an additional HOST command before attempting to
    authenticate the user, a server-FTP process that conforms to this
    specification MUST treat the additional HOST command as though a REIN
    command was sent,

... I think even more strongly than before that it would make more sense to 
have section 3's two alternative versions a and b just be the version B as 
then a "wrongly placed" HOST would always imply a REIN. Nice and simple.

It seems we won't get a lot more feedback on this spec in this WG.

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  / daniel.haxx.se