: No one was asking for a SMTP, IRC, gopher, . . . server, only a
: feature that allows the transfer of files. It is not very simple to
: install a ftp daemon on 3,000 distributed computers world wide, deal
: with the firewall and security issues. Speak for yourself on that
: one, guy. Why get sarcastic? Why not deal with the situation without
: blowing it up into extremes? It doesn't have to be a FTP server, as
: someone mentioned earlier, it can just be intertwined with the
: existing communication on the same port to aid in firewall issues.
Well, I just transfered a 2 megabyte text file over my link, using
vanilla VNC. I simply cut the text on my local machine, and pasted it
on the remote. No problem at all; very simple, very easy. The display
froze for a while while the transfer occured, but otherwise no
noticeable difficulty.
Could do binary files, using mime-style encoding or uucp, easily.
When I get much above 2mb, I have also simply uploaded files to my web
site from my local machine, and downloaded them on the remote machine.
Also very simple, very easy.
So. It seems to me it would be VERY easy to make available an
upload/download tool that would work over existing VNC protocols with no
enhancements at all. Indeed, I could easily write a script in tcl/tk
for unix, so that I could simply click on a file on the local machine,
and then click on a "receive file" button on the remote machine, and
have it transfered, and handle binary files into the bargain; only
slightly more difficult to do some sort of drag-n-drop of multiple
files. WinDoze might be a bit more difficult, but probably not much.
And lacking that, a tool that uses a web server as an intermediate would
also be trivial, and again would require no enhancements to VNC at all.
Sure, it might be nice to have a file transfer enhancement to the
protocol. And and remote audio redirection. And built-in OCR of the
remote bitmap, either on demand or implicitly in the background for
agents that can monitor your session and make useful comments. And so
on and on and on. But among enhancements these, I'd put a file transfer
enhancement way low in urgency/priority.
It's not like file transfer is that much of a problem to cope with.
And no need for special software to be distributed for that matter;
if you use a web site as an intermediate, software to manage the
download at the remote is likely to be on most all computers anyways,
and the security issues for access to the web are normally already
taken care of on both ends.
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