Fw: solving the SFTP text mode issue

["Joseph Galbraith" <galb-list%vandyke.com@localhost>]

Forgot it twice...

- Joseph

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Galbraith" <galb-list%vandyke.com@localhost>
To: <denis.bider%denisbider.com@localhost>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 14:14
Subject: Re: solving the SFTP text mode issue


> > > Then SFTP does not define a file Transfer protocol,
> > > it defines a file Access protocol.
> >
> > YES! That is entirely correct.
> >
> > The commonly used term 'SFTP' is a horrible misnomer. I think we should
> > document that somewhere, and perhaps also provide a less misleading
> official
> > name. (Not 'filexfer'.)
> 
> I concur.  We need a new name.
> "SSH Secure File Access Protocol - SFAP"
> Well, that's just off the top of my head,
> and maybe not the best idea in the world.
> 
> If SFTP was really file transfer protocol
> we would have operations like:
> 
> SFTP_GET_FILE
> uint32 request id
> string file_path
> uint32 starting offset
> 
> and the response would be an arbitrary number of
> SFTP_DATA packets followed by a status packet
> 
> SFTP_DATA [n]
> uint32 request id
> string file_data
> 
> SFTP_STATUS
> uint32 request id
> uint32 status
> string text
> string language.
> 
> Joseph
>