Re: SFTP File open modes

[Damien Miller <djm%mindrot.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Derek Fawcus wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:35:17AM -0500, Richard Whalen wrote:
> >
> > A wire format for textual data was defined as far back as RFC 959
> > (FTP) (and probably further).  Yes, text has been expanded these
> > days to allow a wider character set, and some considerations for
> > this should be made.  But the bulk of the textual data sent these
> > days is done with a character set that uses an 8 bit unit.
> >
> > My employer's customers expect SFTP to provide functionality
> > similar to what is provided by FTP, with the added security of
> > encryption and improved authentication methods. The protocol
> > that is currently defined is not capable of providing that
> > functionality.
>
> Rather than turn SFTP into a version of FTP, I'd suggest that a way
> be documented to run FTP over SSH.

I agree: filexfer should not know or care about ASCII files. FTP is a 
deployed standard which could meet the need with a few tweaks.

-d