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Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service
From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb () CR YP TO>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 18:55:44 -0000
The FTP specification doesn't require servers to support .. and *. In fact, it doesn't even mention .. and *. Naturally, publicfile's ftpd treats * as just another character, and converts . to : after slashes. FTP does, however, include an NLST command that lists all files in the current directory, and a CWD command that switches to a new directory, and a PWD command that lets you return later to the current directory. See http://cr.yp.to/ftp.html. Clients that want globbing can easily implement it using these commands. These clients will work with all FTP servers. Server-side globbing is unnecessary. ---Dan
Current thread:
- Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service, (continued)
- Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service Jeff Dafoe (Mar 16)
- Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service jedi (Mar 16)
- Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service Daniel Roesen (Mar 16)
- Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service Elias Levy (Mar 16)
- Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service Elias Levy (Mar 19)
- Bash memory exhaustion (was Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service) Nick Lamb (Mar 20)
- Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service The Flying Hamster (Mar 21)
- Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service Elias Levy (Mar 19)
- Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service Mike Gleason (Mar 16)
- Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service Crist Clark (Mar 19)
- Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service JT (Mar 19)
- Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service D. J. Bernstein (Mar 19)
- Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service jedi (Mar 20)
- Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service Pawel Wilk (Mar 20)
- Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service Interstellar Overdrive (Mar 23)
- Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service Stefan Laudat (Mar 21)
- Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service Nate Eldredge (Mar 22)
- Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service peterw (Mar 22)
- Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service Markku Savela (Mar 22)
- Multiple vendors FTP denial of service Peter Timothey Hessler (Mar 21)
- Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service Jeff Dafoe (Mar 16)