Re: [ftpext] FWD: I-D Action: draft-yevstifeyev-ftp-uri-scheme-05.txt
John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Tue, 09 August 2011 01:13 UTC
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Subject: Re: [ftpext] FWD: I-D Action: draft-yevstifeyev-ftp-uri-scheme-05.txt
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John C Klensin scripsit: > It seems to me that there are two logical possibilities for an > FTP URI: > > (a) Do something absolutely minimal that satisfies a large > number of cases. This is probably anonymous login only, stream > and image transfer only, probably PASV only these days, maybe > even a restriction to an ASCII command stream. If an email > address is needed for login, a provision for picking that up > from an environment variable rather than having it incorporated > into the URI, would be important. > > (b) Fully-reflect the protocol and all of its standardized > options. This would get fairly complex for a URI because one > would not only want to supply a lot of information but might > want to supply it conditionally. The third possibility is to describe what actually works on the browsers and other URI-basec clients that are actually in use, which I believe is what is being done. > Between those two points, there isn't a lot other than slippery > slope. A slippery slope is where people actually live. -- One Word to write them all, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> One Access to find them, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan One Excel to count them all, And thus to Windows bind them. --Mike Champion
- [ftpext] FWD: I-D Action: draft-yevstifeyev-ftp-u… Mykyta Yevstifeyev
- Re: [ftpext] FWD: I-D Action: draft-yevstifeyev-f… Mykyta Yevstifeyev
- Re: [ftpext] FWD: I-D Action: draft-yevstifeyev-f… John Cowan
- Re: [ftpext] FWD: I-D Action: draft-yevstifeyev-f… John C Klensin
- Re: [ftpext] FWD: I-D Action: draft-yevstifeyev-f… John Cowan
- Re: [ftpext] [apps-discuss] FWD: I-D Action: draf… Barry Leiba
- Re: [ftpext] [Uri-review] [apps-discuss] FWD: I-D… Mykyta Yevstifeyev