Hi, Doug, > >My current ftp implementation > >uses java URL class (with help of a little hacked sun.net.www.*) > >and is thus not fully portable, though pretty reliable. > >I will post it after some cleanup. Any suggestions? > > What are the copyright restictions on the sun.net.www.* code? My guess > is that we probably can't accept a hacked version of that code. If the > code is already included in most JVMs, can you get away with subclassing > things, overriding a few methods?
I will look into this. > > How hard would it be to write a simple FTP client from scratch? I > originally wrote Nutch's HTTP client in about a day. It's evolved since > then to support more features, but a working, correct HTTP client is not > very difficult to write. Is FTP that much harder? For one, FTP involves two channels: data and command. I was trying to beat a deadline and could not ask our sponsor for the luxury of a fresh write (otherwise our proposal would have been flatly turned down). In two months (after pushing through my current project), I will have time available to reexamine the situation. Thank you very much for nutch. John ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Nutch-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nutch-developers
