Re: SCP URIs (draft-ietf-secsh-scp-sftp-ssh-uri-02)

[Steve Suehring <suehring%braingia.org@localhost>]

Joe and I had discussed this and we wanted to leave it to the consensus 
of the group as to whether SCP should remain in the spec.  My problem 
with including it is that there's no current draft for SCP but I'm open 
to input.

If we can get a quick consensus, I'll submit a new version of the draft
without the SCP bits (and with other fixes as I just noticed an e-mail
from Ben Harris.)

Steve

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:42:17PM +0100, Jacob Nevins wrote:
> I still think it's a mistake to attempt to standardise a URI scheme for
> SCP. Apart from the fact that it's not a documented protocol, my
> objection from 2003 still holds:
> 
> =-=-=-=-=-
> 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.