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. _______________________________________________ lftp mailing list lftp@uniyar.ac.ru http://univ.uniyar.ac.ru/mailman/listinfo/lftp