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FTAM — Transfer operation protocol negotiation unspecified

  • Key: FTAM-10
  • Legacy Issue Number: 4177
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: DSTC ( Ted McFadden)
  • Summary:

    In Section 3.2 File Transfer Session, the transfer operation is
    described requires the source FileTransferSession and Target
    FileTransferSession to negotiate the transfer protocol by inspecting
    each other's protocols_supported attribute.

    This is problematic if either FileTransferSession supports more than
    one protocol as the protocol negotiation is not specified.

    For example take two FileTransferSessions that list their supported
    protocols in their preferred order:

    FileTransferSession (A) FileTransferSession (B)
    ---------------------- -----------------------
    supported_protocols: supported_protocols:
    1. "TCP/IP:xxx.xxx.xx.xx:yyy" 1. "Other:adafadfasdfd"
    2. "Other:adfadfasdfadfdf" 2. "TCP/IP:xxx.xxx.xx.xx:yyy"

    Even though they both support the same protocols, if these two
    FileTransferSessions attempt a transfer using the Code sample in
    Section 4.5.2, A will select TCP/IP, B will select "Other" and the
    transfer will never happen.

    Action Requested: specify transfer protocol selection method.

  • Reported: FTAM 1.0b1 — Tue, 30 Jan 2001 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — FTAM 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 21:48 GMT