Re: FTP-over-HTTP

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 05:06:33PM -0300, Guilherme Silveira wrote:
> I am new to lftp and would like to ask some questions...Please forgive me
> if the questions are dumb
> 
> I need to implement the server side of a communication system that uploads
> and downloads files. The client side is using lftp as the client.
> 
> It was agreed to use HTTPS as the communication protocol to do this.
> 
> I am not an http-protocol expert, but I am wondering if this is possible.
> Pure HTTPs does not have all functionalities that ftp has, and would be
> necessary a API on the server side to make it work. For example, HTTPs does
> not have a command to list the contents of a directory.

Well, many http servers can generate directory indexes automatically, lftp
can parse many formats.

> So, my conclusion is that the only way to implement this would be using
> ftp-over-http.
> 
> My question is:
> 
> 1- What is exactly a  ftp-over-http? How does it works under the hood?

It's accessing ftp server using a http proxy.

> 2- What I need to do to implement a server that support ftp-over-http?
> 3- What tools and software would you use to implement the server side? (for
> example: apache with mod_proxy, or jboss with something else, etc)

You can use mod_proxy and an ftp server on the same host.

-- 
   Alexander.
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