Hi op. On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 20:14:37 +0200 Omar Polo <o...@omarpolo.com> wrote:
> On 2023/08/25 09:07:35 -0600, "Theo de Raadt" <dera...@openbsd.org> wrote: > > Pietro Cerutti <g...@gahr.ch> wrote: > > > > > The motivation is that several network protocols are line oriented > > > with CRLF as line terminators. SMTP and HTTP are among the most > > > popular. > > > > Yet, all servers of those protocols and and will accept the simpler 1-byte > > line terminator. > > Not http at least. Try nc www.openbsd.org 80 and type an http > request, httpd(8) will be happily waiting for a \r. > > opensmtpd is less picky and is happy with just a line feed. > > (I don't have any opinion on adding a flag. To be fair, even if it > were added I would probably forget and just use ^V^M^M instead of RET > to terminate the lines when manually testing something.) > I don't have any skin in this game. However, It's obvious to me that nc shouldn't deal with protocol-specific things and adding flags to it to accomodate such behaviour just feels wrong. Netcat is, purely, a transport tool, it is not netcat business if a bunch of bytes written in it's stdin, or whatever, terminates with '\r\n', or just '\n'.
