Re: [ftpext] End byte of transfer in FTP

[Anthony Bryan <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Daniel Stenberg <[e-mail]> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa wrote:
>
>> Issuing ABOR command is workaround but sometimes it does not stop
>> immediately and unused bytes are transfered. Another possible workaround is
>> that just closing data connection and wait for reply from control
>> connection(I've not tested this yet).
>
> curl does FTP range requests that way. It used to just close the transfer at
> the desired end point, and it even works fine with "most" servers while the
> remaining servers we've found requires an ABOR for the server to notice that
> the transfer was indeed closed. And after an ABOR like that, it really is
> hard to re-use the control connection safely, so this kind of "range"
> request certainly has its limitations.

would it be possible to modify REST so that if the FEAT reply included RANGE:

      C> feat
      S> 211- <any descriptive text>
      S>  ...
      S>  REST STREAM RANGE
      S>  ...
      S> 211 end

REST could take a starting point and ending point?

if so, I wonder if servers & clients would want to implement that or
if it's too late in the game.

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