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

["Joseph Salowey" <jsalowey%cisco.com@localhost>]

> > 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:

[Joe] So abs_path is defined in RFC2396 as 

Abs_path = '/' path_segments

We will need to include ABNF refernces in the next revision.


> 
>   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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