Re: FTP in the Finder
Re: FTP in the Finder
- Subject: Re: FTP in the Finder
- From: Jean-Pierre <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:04:20 +0100
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:01:18 -0500 Matt Slot email@hidden wrote:
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>He mentionned that protocols are pluggable in Mac OS X, and that support
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>for AppleTalk, SMB and WebDAV, for example are currently implemented this
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>way. What I'm wondering is, is there such a thing for FTP?
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Repeat after me: "FTP is not a file system"
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You might be able to set up something that fakes a read-only volume based
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on data from an FTP site, but block level access and file locking features
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are simply not supported by the protocol.
OK, then how about SFTP ?
It does have a block level protocol.
- Jean-Pierre.
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