RFC 949 (rfc949) - Page 2 of 2
FTP unique-named store command
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RFC 949 July 1985 FTP Unique-Named Store Command much like work, though--even if it does have the subtle virtue of finally getting control arguments into FTP. Therefore, why not just include it in a suitable response-code's free text field (unless, of course, an avalanche of comments comes in urging it not be done at all)? Note, by the way, that the intent here is emphatically not to sidestep whatever access control, authentication, and accounting mechanisms Hosts might have in play before the user can do an old STOR or a new STOU, but with suitable publicized ID's and passwords it could be almost as good as the proposal made in RFC 505. RECOMMENDATION Add a new command, STOU, to FTP, which behaves like STOR except that the resultant file is to be created in the current directory under a name unique to that directory. The 250 Transfer Started response should include the name generated (unless the copy of FTP I have is so old that 250 isn't the right number any more). Padlipsky
