On Mar 14, 2005, at 5:26 PM, Jason Rust wrote:

Hi, I've been poking around in the code and documentation for a bit now and wanted to see if the following project would be doable with twisted before I actually started coding it:

We want a FTP server where all the files and directories are "virtual." The actual files would be in a database and the folders shown to a user would be based on the time of day and who the user is. When getting or putting a file it would pull or put it into the database backend.

Would something like this be possible with the twisted FTP module? Thanks, -Jason

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well, it would, but you should be forewarned that the twisted FTP module is buggy and messy. I know that because I wrote the server implementation. ;)

Oh, also there's no implementation for PUT, which kind of sucks.

But since you want to make the backend virtual, it shouldn't be too hard (well, *impossible*) to make it work.

I've been meaning to go back and fix this code for a long time, but it just keeps getting pushed off.

Anyway, if you have specific questions about the implementation, I may be able to assist you.

-Jonathan Simms