Olivier Goffart wrote: > Le vendredi 14 septembre 2007, Michal 'vorner' Vaner a écrit : >> Hello >> >> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:39:46PM -0500, XMPP Extensions Editor wrote: >>> Title: Requirements for IM File Transfer >> With some more thinking, I have few more things that would be good to >> have: >> >> • Serverless mode (for link-local) >> • Doesn't go to server and back on LAN (If you have bad internet >> connection, but more computers on LAN). >> • Way of checking the transfer went well - some kind of hash >> • Sending whole directories (may be another XEP, that just advertises a >> directory with all its files and will auto-accept an transfer for each >> of the files) >> • I often hear people asking, if encrypted transfers are possible >> >> Furthermore, it should be easy to implement. (if we just all had IPv6, >> simple TCP connection would work) > > I agree that P2P filetransfer should be used whenever possible. > > A server should be used only if: > - restrictive firewall or NAT make P2P impossible or difficult. > - sending to a contact which is offline > - willing to send the same file to multiple senders
Or: - company policy forbids p2p file transfer - server-side virus checking desired/required before download It is difficult to define consistent requirements for consumer-oriented services on the open internet and employee-oriented services within enterprise deployments. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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