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Re: lynx-dev RFC959 non-compliance in Lynx hangs the client


From: Gregory A Lundberg
Subject: Re: lynx-dev RFC959 non-compliance in Lynx hangs the client
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 09:05:57 -0400

On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 08:46:08AM +0100, David Woolley wrote:

> > Note that it's a "should", and to me it sounds more like a general
> > exhortation than a protocol requirement.
> 
> It's probably important to remember that this RFC was written before
> the commercialisation of the internet and internet access software,
> at a time when people implemented to the spirit, not the letter.
> 
> It is only in the later RFCs that it was necessary to use SHOULD, MUST,
> SHOULD NOT and MAY to avoid commercial implementors implementing to the
> minimum letter of the specification.

It is more important to remember there ARE later RFCs.

RFC 959 does not define the current FTP protocol.  For a complete
definition, you need to read several RFCs.  The most-current FTP-specific
RFCs are highlighted in boldface at http://www.wu-ftpd.org/rfc/

Arguing the meaning of RFC 959 is moot.  RFC 959 was superceeded a number
of years ago and an effort is under way to superceed it yet again.

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Gregory A Lundberg              WU-FTPD Development Group
1441 Elmdale Drive              address@hidden
Kettering, OH 45409-1615 USA    1-800-809-2195

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