Bug 1068 - SFTP Protocol 4 request
Summary: SFTP Protocol 4 request
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Classification: Unclassified
Component: sftp-server (show other bugs)
Version: -current
Hardware: All All
: P2 enhancement
Assignee: Assigned to nobody
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Reported: 2005-08-10 18:30 AEST by Andrew Khlebutin
Modified: 2008-07-22 12:07 AEST (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
Latest and Greatest.. and final sftp tab completion patch. (9.05 KB, application/octet-stream)
2007-12-30 12:12 AEDT, Ben Lindstrom
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Description Andrew Khlebutin 2005-08-10 18:30:57 AEST
Your current SFTP protocol version is 3 which lacks many useful features. Would
you, please, implement SFTP protocol version 4 (or 5)? It's absolutely nessesary
because it supports UTF-8 file names encoding.
Comment 1 Andrew Khlebutin 2005-08-10 18:39:33 AEST
s/nessesary/necessary/
Comment 2 Damien Miller 2005-08-10 18:41:32 AEST
We don't have any plans to implement any newer versions of the filexfer drafts,
because they introduce too much additional complexity. 

At present, sftp just passes though whatever the OS sends, so it should cope
with UTF8 if both end's filesystems do. If you need more that this, then we are
willing to look at extensions to what we have no (there is an extension
mechanism in the protocol for this).
Comment 3 Damien Miller 2005-08-10 18:46:04 AEST
s/what we have no/what we have now/
Comment 4 Andrew Khlebutin 2005-08-10 19:16:56 AEST
I have the following problem with sftp subsystem -
http://winscp.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2347
Comment 5 Damien Miller 2005-08-27 01:14:55 AEST
If anyone wants to implement newer versions of the sftp drafts, then please
discuss on openssh-unix-dev@mindrot.org. I don't think any of the regular
developers have plans in this area though.
Comment 6 Ben Lindstrom 2007-12-30 12:12:45 AEDT
Created attachment 1427 [details]
Latest and Greatest.. and final sftp tab completion patch.

Since OpenSSH moved to libedit with readline like API.  The following attachment is the final version of the tab completion patch.

This version is being submitting for approval to openssh@ list.
Comment 7 Ben Lindstrom 2007-12-30 12:13:53 AEDT
Grr.. Wrong bug.. Sorry.
Comment 8 Damien Miller 2008-06-12 17:31:32 AEST
We won't be supporting more recent versions of the draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-* drafts. They are hopelessly bloated and broken.

If there are specific features that are wanted from the newer drafts we can implement them using the protocol's extension mechanism. Please file separate bugs for these.
Comment 9 Damien Miller 2008-07-22 12:07:32 AEST
Mass update RESOLVED->CLOSED after release of openssh-5.1