Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-secsh-scp-sftp-ssh-uri-00.txt

[Simon Tatham <anakin%pobox.com@localhost>]

> I wrote:
>>  - SCP is a bit harder, because AIUI there's no requirement for
>>    absolute path names on an SCP server to begin with a slash, so
>>    the stated syntax is potentially ambiguous. (A Windows SCP
>>    server, for example, is at liberty to begin all its absolute path
>>    names with "c:\" and "d:\" and so on, I believe.)

"Joseph Salowey" <jsalowey%cisco.com@localhost> wrote:
> I'm not sure, but I believe it is acceptable for the absolute path
> section to contain C: or d:. 
> 
> Scp://c:/file.txt
> 
> Do you see an issue with this?

Well, the URI definition said

  scp_URI = "scp://" [ userinfo "@" ] host [ ":" port ] 
        [ ; parameter = value ] [ abs_path ]

So the `abs_path' section starts immediately after the host name,
and hence it is expected to begin with a slash:

  scp://hostname/usr/bin/thingy
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If the abs_path doesn't begin with a slash, you get

  scp://hostnamec:\bin\thingy

which is clearly useless (and that's without even going into the
backslash issue).

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