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2006 Jan 02
2
[Bug 1141] Is there a sound reason for MAX_MSG_LENGTH being 256KB?
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1141
Summary: Is there a sound reason for MAX_MSG_LENGTH being 256KB?
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Version: 4.2p1
Platform: ix86
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P4
Component: sftp
AssignedTo: bitbucket at mindrot.org
2018 Dec 29
13
[Bug 2949] New: "limits@openssh.com" extension to SFTP to query various transfer limits
...k things up at one size, but
ends up having to backfill things dynamically. the client is able to
recover though, so that's good.
when doing a write of a really large size, OpenSSH will just close the
connection as soon as it sees the header with the large write. the
server hardcodes 256KiB (SFTP_MAX_MSG_LENGTH) and any attempt to write
anything larger than that is immediately rejected. this is not
friendly and clients basically have to default to 32KiB all the time
and force users to manually select a size that they happen to know the
server they're connecting to supports.
if the server supports an...