Re: [ftpext] COMB command IETF draft proposal

[Van Glass <[e-mail]>]

scratch that last commment ... forgot that 1XX replies are only on per
command sent by client.

Van Glass
JSCAPE
Managed File Transfer and Security Solutions
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On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Van Glass <[e-mail]> wrote:
> To expand on Lothar's idea, perhaps this could be achieved using
> positive preliminary (1XX) replies.
>
> ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FTP_server_return_codes
>
> e.g.
>
> C> COMB "dest" "part1" "part2"
> S> 1XX part1 complete
> S> 1XX part2 complete
> S> 250 success
>
>
> Van Glass
> JSCAPE
> Managed File Transfer and Network Solutions
> http://www.jscape.com
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Lothar Kimmeringer
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> 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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