Re: FTP-over-HTTP

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 04:24:44PM -0300, Guilherme Silveira wrote:
> I would like to clarify one thing:  is it possible to implement all
> functionalities the ftp protocol has (download,  upload,  resume
> upload/download,  directory listing,  mirror)  with just pure https,  no
> extension methods or api?

Yes. Turn on automatic directory indexes on the server. For uploading
some extra work is required, but it is possible - the server should handle
PUT request and store the file.

-- 
   Alexander.

> Em 18/03/2015 17:06, "Guilherme Silveira" <[email protected]>
> escreveu:
> 
> > HI,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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?
> > 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)
> >

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