Re: FTP in the Finder
Re: FTP in the Finder
- Subject: Re: FTP in the Finder
- From: Jason Linhart <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:41:55 -0500
On 3/28/02 9:42 PM Steve Kalkwarf (email@hidden) wrote:
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> When does the Finder open files? Clippings is all I can think of
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> off the top of my head.
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Previews, .DSStore files, Launch Services databases, custom icons, etc.
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As it was said before, FTP is not equal to a file system.
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And as a provider of FTP services, I have to tell you that FTP is dead,
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and people are looking for sftp, scp, and other "secure" solutions,
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anyway.
Hey, if someone could do FTP they could also do sftp, scp, tftp, and http
in another few days. The hard part is writing the network file system
driver to provide tight integration with the Mac.
Hundreds of thousands of people do FTP transfers frequently enough for
this to be a killer feature/product. Almost everyone who has a web site
does FTP, and who doesn't have a web site these days. The more tightly
integrated it is with the OS the more everyone would like it. Interarchy
and others have become more and more tightly integrated with the Finder
over the years, it's time someone finished the job. I would pay money for
this, others would too.
I don't get why people keep saying it can't be done. It has already been
done on Windows. Are you telling me that MacOS X is so broken that it
can't conceivably support a feature Windows has had (through third party
addons) for years? See for example Internet Neighborhood,
<
http://www.deerfield.com/products/internet_neighborhood/> or WebDrive,
<
http://www.southrivertech.com/products/webdrive/index.html>. I thought
that the clever programmers were the ones working on the Macintosh. Where
is your can do spirit?
Of course FTP is not a file system, FTP is a protocol for accessing a
remote file system. Anything short of a shared multi-user database file
can be gotten to work with a little creativity. Yes, it might have to do
some faking out of the Finder to have reasonable speed, but no one will
notice that. Most FTP servers support starting a transfer at any offset
into the file, and all FTP servers support aborting a transfer in
progress when you have the bytes you need (at least on read, although
some of them are not so graceful about it). The only thing you can never
do is record locking (actually I bet you could fake it, but then it would
be sooo slow it would be worthless).
Jason
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