On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Mikael Olsson wrote:

> FTP would be such a case. Telnet is another one.
> And, yes, "forward" was maybe a poor choice of words in this context, 
> even though I said "the urgent signal" as opposed to "the URG flag" 
> or "the URG-flagged packet". "Relay" would have been more appropriate.
> 
> My bad.

The salient point was "applications don't automatically become immune"- to 
my mind, Telnet and FTP are designed with URG data in mind, so sending 
them URG data at the appropriate place in the protocol isn't really a big 
deal.  Sending or stripping URG data based on port is only somewhat 
equivalent.  

Paul
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