Re: Deprecating SCP

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On Monday, November 2, 2020 6:31:33 PM CET Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Kamil Dudka:
> > On Monday, November 2, 2020 5:57:29 PM CET Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> * Kamil Dudka:
> >> > As far as I know, (lib)curl has never silently transformed a protocol
> >> > scheme explicitly specified with URL.  This can be discussed upstream
> >> > but I do not feel like starting the discussion myself.
> >> 
> >> Curl does it for https://, so it should be fine for scp://.
> > 
> > Could you please be more specific?  What exactly does curl do for https://
> > ?
> It automatically replaces the underlying HTTP transport with HTTP/2 if
> the server replaces it.  These protocols are about as similar as SCP and
> SFTP, I would say.

Thank you for clarifying it!

The key difference is that the HTTP protocol upgrade to HTTP/2 (or HTTP/3
via Alt-Svc header) are covered by IETF specifications.  There is also no 
protocol scheme to specify HTTP/2 explicitly in URL, unlike SCP vs. SFTP.

Kamil

> Thanks,
> Florian

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