FTP "type" declaration

Hi there,

Apologies if you are not the person to mention this to.

I just spotted a discrepancy in the FTP URI defintion on the addressing
page on the W3C website.

Background: In the FTP URI, you can include a statement at the end of
the URI of the form ";type=<typecode>" to indicate what transfer more to
use (e.g. ascii or "image" [binary]).

On the W3C website [1] it states that the type should take the form:
   

    ;type = <type-code>
    ...
    The type code is in the format defined in RFC959...


In RFC959 [2], the <type-code> is defined as:

    <type-code> ::= A [<sp> <form-code>]
                          | E [<sp> <form-code>]
                          | I
                          | L <sp> <byte-size>


Note these are all capital letters (A, E, I, L) so, for example to
indicate using the "image" mode you would put:

     ;type=I

However, in RFC1738[3], it states 

     ...<typecode> is one of the characters "a", "i", or "d"...

Here they are indicated as lower case.

So anyway, there is a discrepancy here. Obviously I guess the simple
answer is to go with RFC1738 as it is more recent.

Just wondered if you had any input on this?

Regards,

John Wood


[1] http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/4_1_FTP.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc959/5_Declarative.html#z9
[3] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html