[JDEV] File Transfer Proposals

[Richard Dobson]

> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 02:03:36PM -0000, Richard Dobson wrote:
> > > No ... I don't think you need 3 days to send some headers ... you just
> > have
> > > to preprend to all your outgoing connections "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n"
and
> > to
> > > all incomming connections "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n\r\n". I really can't
see
> > why
> > > you need 3 days to implement that. - Oh, sure ... you have to strip
that
> > > headers when you receive it ... 1 minute more to write the code for
that.
> >
> > What?? and you think that we be robust enough and compatible enough to
> > always work with all clients, somehow I doubt it.
>
> For most purposes this will be enough. And it can be easily extended
> when needed (and there is no need to invent new extensions). Will the
> new simple streaming protocol as extensible as HTTP?
>
> And this will work with existing Jabber clients.

Are you sure it would be enough, wont the libraries that the clients are
built with be expecting all sorts of headers not just the request responses,
how extensible does the simple streaming protocol really need to be, all it
is supposed to be for is directly streaming a file p2p from one person to
another simply and easily, not having to deal with HTTP requests, and the
fact that the person might not immediately retrieve the file meaning that
you have to keep the port open indefinately until someone connects and
retrieves the file, which might not even be the real person, by doing this
streaming protocol you can do the negotiation and control over the xml
stream and it ends up being much easier and far more secure, im sure if you
needed to add any security into the HTTP example provided it would make it a
hell of a lot more complicated.