Hi all, Thank you very much for your input.
I cannot see how I can answer individually, so instead: @George: I do consider myself future-oriented, so I could try to suggest that they provide the information in another way. The vendor is a big international firm though, and I need the FTP files for a feature in my little app, which so far will have only 3 customers, so I do not think I have a big (read:any) say in their solutions. @Nick: Ok, so your library can be used in the GAE app itself without no need for e.g. a compute engine instance etc.? I'm not sure what you mean by "you'll need to pick the write combo though"? @Jim: the application on the VM is not a GAE app then? @George/Nick: what would the most basic setup on GCE/GKE be then? Adding an application to a compute engine instance that fetches files from the FTP server, and uploads to e.g. Cloud storage? But what about the app on the compute engine instance, that would not be a GAE app then? I really appreciate your input, but I can't shake the feeling that what should have been a small, simple part of my GAE app - i.e. reading files on an FTP server (unscalable as it is), exploded to a big solution which requires a compute engine instance, uploading to cloud storage etc. - and it sounds like it will take me the same amount of time to develop as the other part of the app took... - Louise Den onsdag den 8. februar 2017 kl. 12.02.22 UTC+1 skrev Louise Elmose Hedegaard: > > Hi, > > I need to connect to a FTP server to fetch files for my app. > There is no alternative, as the files are from another vendor, which only > has the option to add the files to a FTP server. > I tried using the Java JSch library for a SFTP connection, but as the > library creates a new thread when connecting the session this is not an > option, as GAE does not support starting new threads either. > > Does anybody have suggestions for how I can work around the fact that GAE > does not support FTP connections? > > Thanks, > -Louise > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/be0aa232-1caf-4ed3-8d2f-60efc4f56b6c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
