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Re: iis = dummy ftp ? Was: strange behaviour, data connection mix!?

From: Armel Asselin <asselin.armel_at_wanadoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:20:59 +0200

>>> It make me think that it would be rather cool to have a true handling of
>>> ABOR command, which would allow the actual explicit cancellation of an
>>> easy, -without- trashing the command connection. One way would be that
>>> when removing a ftp connection from a multi, and this ftp connection is
>>> in the middle of data stuff, we could issue a ABOR command, note that we
>>> may have to trash [426] 226 response(s) if it is actually reused.
>
>> any remark about this?
>>
>> can/should I implement the ABOR command? (which could be used by the way
>> to handle properly the cancellation of a command)
>
> Yes, I think it would be neat if removing an easy handle from the multi
> handle would gracefully stop the current transfer.
cool... so i'll put that in my overwhelmed list of TODOes :-)

BTW, the disable/replacement stuff seems to work well for the SIZE command.
i'll try to propose a patch after integrated the latest CVS commit (when the
pipelining stuff seem to be more stable).

Armel
Received on 2006-09-11