Re: Specifying file names in SSH File Transfer Protocol

[Dan O'Reilly <dano%process.com@localhost>]

At 10:02 AM 3/8/2002, Markus Friedl wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:01:02AM -0700, Dan O'Reilly wrote:
> > Perhaps this is a job for an ASN.1 representation of a complete filename?
>
> you really want ASN.1 in a slim protocol?

Witness the last few message exchanges.  To date, everything has assumed a
UNIX-style filename.  Demonstrably, VMS and UNIX are different, as are other
potential candidates down the road.  ASN.1 obviates filename and path
mapping translation issues.  Now, if there's a better option than ASN.1, I
have no quarrel with using it.  But the functionality supplied by ASN.1
handles this better than anything I can think of.  I grant the point, though,
that it's potentially overkill in this protocol, but you need the 
functionality.


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