On 09:01 am, [email protected] wrote: >Hi, > >I need to develop a customised FTP proxy for one of our systems, and >would like to consider Twisted for this project. > >The t.p.ftp module seems to have the server and the client more or >less ready to use, so I think I am good to start, but just wanted to >check with you guys if there are any gotchas that I should be aware >of. The system is intended to work as follows: > >- Users authenticate directly with the proxy, not the backend-server, >using a Drupal site for authentication (either through some sort of >API-call or by accessing the database directly - to be decided) >- The client-part of the proxy connects with a master-user/password to >one or more backend FTP-servers running in passive mode behind >firewalls. >- The master-user has access to the union of all file and directory >sets that each individual user has access to. >- The root folder presented to the user should contain either all the >available hosts, or a virtualised overview of all main directories on >all the hosts that the user may access. >- Any file access or directory listing will be filtered against an ACL >to allow only certain files and directories to be accessed by the >user. > >Is there anything I should be aware of that may be a showstopper or >otherwise overly complicate this project by using t.p.ftp, or am I >good to go? > >Will producers/consumers be an appropriate way of transferring data >between the client-part and the server-part of the proxy, and is >t.p.pcp something I should look into?
twisted.protocols.pcp isn't that useful. You can probably build what you need without it. Jean-Paul >Any suggestions, especially mentions of/links to similar projects, >would be most helpful and appreciated. > >Cheers, >Einar S. Ids9 > >_______________________________________________ >Twisted-Python mailing list >[email protected] >http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list [email protected] http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
