[Twisted-Python] Large file transfers
Steve Waterbury
steve.waterbury at gsfc.nasa.gov
Thu Jul 25 12:45:09 MDT 2002
Twisted gurus,
I just noticed item 008 on the twisted TO DO list:
File Transfer layer for PB. This would be especially nice for
twisted.words; having standard a way to transfer "large" (100MB+) packets
across or in tandem with a PB connection without breaking anything would be
very good.
<sophomoric question>
Would an ftp connection (authenticated using cred, of course) in
tandem or parallel to the PB connection work? ... but maybe you
are referring to implementing file transfer as *part* of the
PB protocol, in which case this question might not make any sense
at all.
</sophomoric question>
And how close is this to being implemented?
My interest is not merely academic -- the application I am working
on will be "routinely" transferring 100MB+ files, and I'd like
to use the PB as one of our interfaces.
(BTW, one of the components of our app is written in Lisp, so I
am thinking about having our Lisp programmer look at Twisted Emacs
for hints as to how a Common Lisp implementation of PB could be done ...
but I notice that several twisted minions have Lisp in their resumes ...
is anyone working on / contemplating a CL implementation of PB? :^)
Cheers,
-- Steve.
Stephen C. Waterbury http://misspiggy.gsfc.nasa.gov/people/waterbug.html
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