On the fly TAR SUPPORT
Being able to support on the fly tar would be a real cool feature to be able to have. If a directory tree has loads of really small files to transfere it takes ages even if you are both on a 100 meg connection
On the fly would tar the files server side then dl the tar and extract them all on the fly. Speeds thing up immensly as there is only one get commend
WUFTPD supports this functionality, and is a very common installation
There are some extensions to the FTP server such that if the
user specifies a filename (when using a RETRIEVE command)
such that:
True Filename Specified Filename Action
------------- ------------------ -----------------------------------
<filename>.Z <filename> Decompress file before transmitting
<filename> <filename>.Z Compress <filename> before
transmitting
<filename> <filename>.tar Tar <filename> before transmitting
<filename> <filename>.tar.Z Tar and compress <filename> before
transmitting
Also, the FTP server will attempt to check for valid e-mail
addresses and chide the user if he doesn't pass the test.
For users whose FTP client will hang on "long replies" (i.e.
multiline responses), using a dash as the first character of
the password will disable the server's lreply() function.
The FTP server can also log all file transmission and recep-
tion, keeping the following information for each file
transmission that takes place.
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