Subject: Ftp-WG: New FTP reference manual

From: "D. J. Bernstein" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 13:53:34 -0400

I've written an online reference manual for FTP:

   http://pobox.com/~djb/ftp.html

You can also try reading it through my experimental new HTTP/FTP server
at the temporary HTTP address http://koobera.math.uic.edu:580/ftp.html
or the temporary FTP address ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu:521/ftp.html.

This manual is an up-to-date replacement for RFC 959. It includes
detailed examples, dozens of warnings about interoperability problems,
a thorough discussion of PORT and PASV security, and a new analysis of
FTP pipelining, all in about half the space of RFC 959.

Did you run into problems writing an FTP client or server? Please let me
know, so that future implementors can avoid those problems.

---Dan