Hello On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:44:15AM +0100, Tomasz Sterna wrote: > Dnia 06-11-2007, Wt o godzinie 09:17 +0000, Richard Dobson pisze: > > > And repeat the FTP + statefull firewall nightmare? > > Sorry but what??? Can you explain exactly what you mean by this. > > Ever tried to get FTP protocol through FW/NAT? > It requires protocol level command channel tracking, to find out related > data channels and let them in. > Special handling, special modules, special setup - ergo: nobody bothers.
Because the FTP data channel (not to mention it offers passive transfer, too) is _inbound_. If you opened not one TCP connection to the server, but two, one for XML and one for blobs, how it would be different from single TCP connection? But a different question - is binary XML able to transfer binary data? And is it possible to map normal XML <-> binary XML one to one? If so, we could have a stream feature "use binary XML instead and transfer blob elements not-base64-encoded" or something like that. If the server needed to push it to a non-binary stream, it would have to base64 it (or something like that). Does it make sense? (Just an crazy idea, I do not know, if it could be of any use). -- Q: Why was Stonehenge abandoned? A: It wasn't IBM compatible. Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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