Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 03:14:04 +0100 From: Kai Voigt <k@123.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: finger(1) not RFC compliant Message-ID: <19991128031403.N19490@abc.123.org>
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Hello,
I'm not sure if I'm right and actually, there are more important things
in the world. But while implementing the finger protocol in Pike, I
found out that FreeBSD's finger(1) on my 3.3-STABLE does not behave as
RFC 1288 wants it to.
When entering "finger user@remotehost", finger has to send
"/W user\r\n" to the remotehost. Instead, it sends "user\r\n" without
the leading "/W ".
In chapter 2.3, RFC 1288 defines a non recursive finger query as
{Q1} ::= [ {W} | {W} {S} {U} ] {C}
where {W} is "/W", {S} one or more spaces, {U} the username and {C}
is "\r\n".
Kai
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