On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 6:49 AM, Hans Muller j.m.muller@hccnet.nl wrote:
Update of my question:
- Would a ftp-domain (not http(s) protocol) like
be acceptable for GWToolset?
is an http protocol url for a server named ftp. Did you mean ftp://ftp.company.com ?
http://ftp.company.com is acceptable (Since it starts with http://), but ftp://ftp.company.com would not be.
In principle we might be able to add ftp support (It uses curl on the backend which supports ftp, I think its just the validation code that rejects ftp). We'd also need to make sure that the squid proxy supports ftp, (Squid in principle supports ftp, but I have no idea if its enabled in Wikimedia.
So basically, I'd suggest filing a bug. If anyone was actually maintaining GWToolset it would probably get fixed. Given the current situation, who knows.
- If so, would a call with user/passwd be acceptable as an upload URL for
GWToolset? (Of course after whitelisting the domain.) Type:
http://ftp.company.com?user=...&password=...&dir=TIFF/1&file=1_0...
The syntax for username and password in urls is
ftp://username:password@ftp.company.com/TIFF/1/1_01.tiff
This is also true for http urls when using HTTP authentication.
Or would .... for instance the access time be too slow for GWToolset (depends of course) etc.
Timeouts would be the same as for http. Which are quite high, so it would probably be fine on that count.
-- -bawolff