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

[Jacob Nevins <jacobn+secsh%chiark.greenend.org.uk@localhost>]

Joseph Salowey writes:
> [Joel N. Weber II:]
> > Is there a good reason to define scp URLs in addition to sftp URLs?
>
> [Joe] SCP is is use today, we thought it would be useful.

How should filenames containing spaces be represented in scp: URLs?
Backslashes?

The scp "protocol" requires that such filenames be quoted in some
unspecified way (often using Unix shell quoting, but presumably
server-dependent).
IME, with many current clients it's up to the user to know the quoting
convention on the particular server. Either the quoting will have to
be embedded in URLs (and hence specified), or quoting becomes the
client's responsibility and the standardisation of the URL format will
not do much to achieve interoperability.