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Re: Theads and FTP

From	Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Theads and FTP
Date	2011-12-06 11:28 -0600
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 12/5/2011 12:29 PM, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
> It also has been my experience as a major consumer of RFCs that the
> question of misinterpretation is not so much a result of RFC text being
> wrong but how to deal with idiot software that puts literal crap on the
> network in violation of RFCs--a casualty of server software playing the
> "be liberal in what you accept" game and accepting many things in pretty
> gross violation of the legal specifications, which people come to rely on.

To add as an addendum, it has never been my experience that fundamental 
methodologies of an RFC (or any reasonable specification, for that 
matter) are misinterpreted. In the case of FTP, it is constructed with a 
main control connection, which sets up ancillary connections to actually 
transfer data instead of doing it in the control connection; this is in 
contradistinction to, say, IMAP, where messages are transferred inline 
in the same connection as the control management.

Misinterpreting this much would be much the same as someone reading the 
JLS and claiming that |int x = "I am a string!";| is legal Java code.

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth

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Theads and FTP Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-03 20:31 -0800
  Re: Theads and FTP Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-12-04 13:14 -0800
    Re: Theads and FTP Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-04 22:06 -0500
      Re: Theads and FTP Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-12-05 14:58 +0000
        Re: Theads and FTP Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-05 22:01 -0500
          Re: Theads and FTP Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-12-06 21:07 +0000
    Re: Theads and FTP Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-05 05:33 -0800
      Re: Theads and FTP Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-12-05 09:29 -0800
      Re: Theads and FTP Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-12-05 12:29 -0600
        Re: Theads and FTP Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-12-06 11:28 -0600
      Re: Theads and FTP Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-05 22:00 -0500
      Re: Theads and FTP Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-12-06 22:16 +0000
  Re: Theads and FTP Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-04 22:04 -0500

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