RE: Additional thoughts on text transfers

[Richard Whalen <Whalenr%process.com@localhost>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus Friedl [mailto:markus%openbsd.org@localhost]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:13 AM
> To: Richard Whalen
> Cc: 'ietf-ssh%netbsd.org@localhost'
> Subject: Re: Additional thoughts on text transfers
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 09:00:25AM -0500, Richard Whalen wrote:
> > The OPEN/READ/WRITE mechanism is where the problem lies.  
> It specifies
> > particular bytes from the file, and on some systems those 
> bytes may contain
> > a mixture of actual data and system specific details.
> 
> But when the server sends different data in READ replies (depending on
> the client system) then the data get be corrupted, i.e. the MD5 of the
> data would not match among different clients.
> 

With a defined text transfer mechanism the server would send the same data
to all requests for the file in text mode (as long as the file has not been
changed).  The MD5 of the data would match with proper handling of the
carriage control information.