I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-05.txt
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Extensions to FTP Working Group of the IETF. Title : Extensions to FTP Author(s) : R. Elz, P. Hethmon Filename : draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-05.txt Pages : 46 Date : 16-Dec-98 In order to overcome the problems caused by the undefined format of the current FTP LIST command output, a new command is needed to transfer standardized listing information from Server-FTP to Client- FTP. Commands to enable this are defined in this document. In order to allow consenting clients and servers to interact more freely, a quite basic, and optional, virtual file store structure is defined. This proposal also extends the FTP protocol to allow character sets other than US-ASCII[1] by allowing the transmission of 8-bit characters and the recommended use of UTF-8[2] encoding. Much implemented, but long undocumented, mechanisms to permit restarts of interrupted data transfers in STREAM mode, are also included here. Lastly, the HOST command has been added to allow a style of 'virtual site' to be constructed. In this version of this draft all previously open questions have been given answers, and thus deleted from the draft. The HOST command appears for the first time in this draft, but the previous extended definition of the STAT command has been removed. MLST now uses the control connection. Some error response have been specified more precisely. A few examples have been added, finally! This paragraph will be deleted from the final version of this document. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-05.txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-05.txt". Internet-Drafts directories are located at: Africa: ftp.is.co.za Europe: ftp.nordu.net ftp.nic.it Pacific Rim: munnari.oz.au US East Coast: ftp.ietf.org US West Coast: ftp.isi.edu Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ietf.org. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-05.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.
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