Version of SFTP

Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 21:30:47 AEDT 2016


On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 2:41 AM, Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> wrote:
> Sorry, but we have no intention of supporting the later
> SFTP versions. In fact, adding "text" transfer modes to the
> protocol was the proximal reason why we don't - we consider it
> a bad idea.
>
> There are 3rd-party sftp servers you can use with OpenSSH that do support
> the later drafts if you can't bring yourself to convert things on the
> endpoints.

Thanks. There are a lot of features of the real FTP protocol which
might be desirable, but the inline rewriting of file content has
always been a very dangerous, easily misused one.


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