Re: New draft-draft of sftp...

[Markus Friedl <markus%openbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 05:29:19PM +0000, David Wagner wrote:
> I don't agree.  Suppose I run the following from my home directory:
>    scp server:pretty*.jpg .
> Ok, so if the server is malicious, I can't count on the contents
> of those jpg files.  Big deal -- the worst that happens is those
> pictures don't look so pretty to me, and I delete them.  This sounds
> like a fairly manageable risk to me.

I agree with David:  this is exactly why the sftp protocol is
an improvment over rcp/scp.  The client can retrieve complete
directory listings and glob as it likes.