Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:49:16 -0000 (GMT) From: John Rochester <john.rochester@enetgroup.co.uk> To: Kai Voigt <k@123.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: finger(1) not RFC compliant Message-ID: <XFMail.991129104916.john.rochester@enetgroup.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19991128031403.N19490@abc.123.org>
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On 28-Nov-99 Kai Voigt wrote:
> 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}
I am sure this is a typo in the RFC. If you look at the meaning of "/W", it
does not make sense for it to be optional for the Q2 (recursive) query, but
not optional for Q1. BSD finger properly only adds the /W when finger -l
is used.
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John Rochester Java Developer, e-Net Software, Bath, UK
john.rochester@enetgroup.co.uk jr@cs.mun.ca
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