Re: Other misc things in the drafts

[nisse%lysator.liu.se@localhost (Niels Möller)]

"Joseph Galbraith" <galb-list%vandyke.com@localhost> writes:

> - In the connection draft, section 4.3.1, we should note
>   that the x11 authentication cookie MUST be hexadecimal
>   encoded.

Why? Is that what people are doing (I haven't implemented x11
forwarding yet). It seems very strange to me to use a redundant but
ascii-friendly encoding for things in the binary very eight-bit clean
ssh protocols.

> - In the connection draft, section 5.1, we should specify
>   text like this:
> 
>   The response to the "tcpip-forward" request will look like:
> 
>      byte SSH_MSG_GLOBAL_REQUEST_SUCCESS
>      string "tcpip-forward"
>      uint32 port that was bound on server
> 
>   We should also explicitly allow binding to port
>   0 to indicate any port.

I agree this is a good idea. Although I think that for backwards
compatibility we should either

 (i) say that the port field is included *only* when binding port 0,
     or
 (ii) use a new request type

/Niels