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FTAM — listening socket determination of source / destination File

  • Key: FTAM-19
  • Legacy Issue Number: 4228
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: DSTC ( Ted McFadden)
  • Summary:

    In general (exception noted below) it is not possible for a receiving
    FileTransferSession to know what is the destination File for the data
    coming in over a socket. The receiver is never made aware of the
    sender's connection host and port, so it cannot distinguish multiple
    connections to the listening socket.

    The exception is that the transfer mechanism described in Chapter 4
    will work reliably as long as the following limitations apply:

    1. A FileTransferSession is involved in only one file transfer at a
    time so there is no ambiguity as to the data source and destination.

    AND

    2. A server process implementation makes each FileTransferSession
    listen on a different port or allow only one FileTransferSession to
    take part in a transfer at a time. This guarantees there is no
    ambiguity as to which FileTransferSession is involved in a file
    transfer.

    These are rather severe restrictions. Simultaneous transfers and reuse
    of server sockets can be accomplished if the transfer negotiation is
    augmented to exchange details such as host and port (somewhat like the
    ftp PORT command does to establish a data connection.) Such an approach
    is outlined in issue 4209.

  • Reported: FTAM 1.0b1 — Wed, 21 Mar 2001 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — FTAM 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution for issues 4177, 4209, and 4227 applies to this issue.

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 21:48 GMT