[ExtractStream] Re: My Dangerous Idea - A technical question, not a legal question

sharkey@a... sharkey at a...
Sat, 30 Jun 2001 18:22:15 -0400


> The approach I'm following is to write a MFS filesystem implementation so I=
> can just FTP programming. Another approach would be to code a program that=
> knew how to write into the MFS and have it do both the transfers and the r=
> ead/write, but I prefer the first approach.

Why are you attached to FTP? We already have a working http server which
can read MFS and has been integrated with ExtractStream to allow transfer
of arbitrary streams. What do you gain by reimplementing this functionality
whith ftp rather than http?

Eric