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

[Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld%east.sun.com@localhost>]

> scp://hostname/c:/bin/thingy
> 
> Isn't there current a similar problem with ftp urls?
> 
> It would seem that in order to form the URL you would have to convert
> path-separators into / to fit into URL syntax. I think this is what is
> done with FTP.  

yep, that matches my (possibly lossy) understanding of ftp as well
(shortly after NetBSD's ftp client was extended to take url's on the
command line, there was a followup code change to do individual
cd's for each URL component ..)