Re: [ftpext] COMB command IETF draft proposal

[Lothar Kimmeringer <[e-mail]>]

Am 08.06.2011 22:57, schrieb Robert Oslin:
> "Have you experienced any issues"
>
> - yes, with larger (multi-GB) size files; however there are ways to combine the
 > file so that timeouts can be avoided in most cases. I made a couple of fleeting
 > references to those methods in the spec, but really it would be up to the server
 > vendor to research and implement the optimal recombine technique so that timeouts
 > could all but be eliminated for everything but exceedingly large files...

I have to find a way to open docx files so I might repeat something
that is already supposed but a simple way would be to respond with
the equivalent of a HTTP-100-response:

C: COMB filea fileb filec
S: 250-Start COMB
    250-COMB for filea finished
    250-COMB for fileb finished
    250-COMB for filec finished
    250 COMB command successful

Since a client should in general start over with a timeout every time
a line of the response has been received, it should help avoid timeouts
with very large files. In addition to that you receive some feedback,
that the server is still talking with you.


Regards, Lothar
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