Re: [google-appengine] Re: Sockets don't work any more

2016-05-18 Thread Emanuele Ziglioli
Grazie Alex, colourful answer, it made me smile! I wish we had Tarallucci&Vino here in New Zealand, they're hard to come by. Anyway, good to hear a bit about the background and spirit of App Engine, although I don't think it has always maintained its original promise. Correct me if I'm wrong: Ap

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Sockets don't work any more

2016-05-18 Thread 'Alex Martelli' via Google App Engine
Ciao Emanuele, (strong temptation to switch to Italian, presumably your native language as well as mine, since the following is more emotional than technical, and Italian's great at that... but, let's resist for the sake of keeping the thread readable by all!), > I wish support people had some ex

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Sockets don't work any more

2016-05-18 Thread Emanuele Ziglioli
Yes, I saw that and that's why I wrote "silently declared unsupported". People were using FTP on GAE for quite some time: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2693412/does-google-app-engine-support-ftp/26283142#comment61998696_26283142 I wish support people had some experience actually using App En

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Sockets don't work any more

2016-05-18 Thread 'Josh Moore' via Google App Engine
FTP is explicitly not supported for the Sockets API. See "Limits and Restrictions": https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/sockets/ On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 7:18 AM, 'Nicholas (Google Cloud Support)' via Google App Engine wrote: > Thank you for posting your issue here though the App Engine

[google-appengine] Re: Sockets don't work any more

2016-05-18 Thread 'Nicholas (Google Cloud Support)' via Google App Engine
Thank you for posting your issue here though the App Engine public issue tracker would be a far better forum for this sort of report. I would strongly suggest filing a new issue with what you've provided above and adding a link to it here s

[google-appengine] Re: Sockets don't work any more

2016-05-15 Thread Emanuele Ziglioli
Luckily I've found out that some sites now offer GPS Rinex files via http (for probably 30 years, FTP was the main medium of choice), so I've spent about 3h porting our code to access those files that way. Can I bill Google for that? Not giving up on GAE yet, despite the continuous headache. Jus