Re: Quanta & kio slaves (kio_ftp)

On Wednesday 25 July 2007 13:32, Andras Mantia wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Rémi Lambert wrote:
> > When I use Quanta Plus to edit a file on my website, saving the file
> > causes multiple instances of kio_ftp to be opened and many
> > simultaneous FTP connexions are established between my computer and
> > the server. Some servers doesn't like it and blacklisted my IP
> > address.
>
> Unfortunately this is how the FTP kioslave works. :( There are several
> bug reports regarding this issue, even from 2001...
> See http://tinyurl.com/224cy5 for a list of kio_ftp bugs.
>
> > 2) Is there a way to force Quanta to use another way to communicate
> > by FTP with the server than the kioslaves ? Would Quanta be able to
> > use the bash "ftp" command in a konsole, for instance ?
>
> No, this is not possible as Quanta doesn't even know if the connection
> is local, ftp, ssh, sftp or whatever.
>
> Can't you access your web servers via ssh? In that case you might want
> to try the sftp or fish protocol instead of ftp.

I easily overcame this by using mount. Have a look at the FUSE project.
This will overcome the suppressive need for quanta to access the kioslave 
stuff within KDE (witch I must say is very useful in very few ways(yes, 
kioslaves that is))


>
> Andras

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