[ogsa-hpcp-wg] [Fwd: FIle Staging Extensions Comment]

[Donal K. Fellows]

Donal K. Fellows wrote:
> Steven Newhouse wrote:
>> It was discussed in the working group. My recollection was that there
>> was no defined 'standard' mechanism for embedding a username and
>> password into an scp uri. Therefore we did not feel happy specifying
>> one.
> 
> I'd have thought in that case that going with the "generic URI" format
> for usernames and passwords would be the right thing then, leading to:
> 
>    scp://user:pass@host.com/path/to/file

This is basically the format described in:
    http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-secsh-scp-sftp-ssh-uri-01
(minus many complicated bits).

Though that never progressed beyond draft, it's probably as good a point
to start from as anywhere.

Donal.