Jonathan Bell added the comment:
The CLA is signed, and I'm again able to work on this.
I was able to update this locally for Python 3 with a minimal test case. What
specifically were you looking for?
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Change by Jonathan Bell :
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pull_requests: +27604
stage: test needed -> patch review
pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/29337
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Jonathan Bell added the comment:
This issue is 13 years old. The original 2008 patch was used in a production
environment against an OpenVMS server identifying itself as MadGoat. That use
case involved downloading documents only, and no write permission was
available. Therefore the patch
Jonathan Bell added the comment:
No practical method exists to verify BLOCK transmission mode, which as
mentioned earlier, was rarely implemented even when this issue was opened.
Given that reality, I'm inclined to close this issue.
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Jonathan Bell added the comment:
I should rephrase: There doesn't seem to be a practical way to verify BLOCK
transmission mode against actual servers in the wild. As the Wikipedia article
that Giampaolo referenced points out, BLOCK mode is a rarity that was primarily
supported on
