Commit 1de6b97a authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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TODO: we've done PRET already, consider HOST for the future 

... and GnuTLS connects are non-blocking, TFTP is better
integrated as a "real" protocol and RTSP is supported.
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docs/TODO

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 3.1  More and better



 4. FTP

 4.1 PRET

 4.1 HOST

 4.2 Alter passive/active on failure and retry

 4.3 Earlier bad letter detection

 4.4 REST for large files
@@ -60,16 +60,14 @@ 
 8. GnuTLS

 8.1 SSL engine stuff

 8.2 SRP

 8.3 non-blocking

 8.4 check connection

 8.3 check connection



 9. Other protocols

 9.1 ditch ldap-specific select



 10. New protocols

 10.1 RTSP

 10.2 RSYNC

 10.3 RTMP

 10.1 RSYNC

 10.2 RTMP



 11. Client

 11.1 Content-Disposition
@@ -198,12 +196,12 @@ 


4. FTP



4.1 PRET

4.1 HOST



 PRET is a command that primarily "drftpd" supports, which could be useful

 when using libcurl against such a server. It is a non-standard and a rather

 oddly designed command, but...

 http://curl.haxx.se/bug/feature.cgi?id=1729967

 HOST is a suggested command in the works for a client to tell which host name

 to use, to offer FTP servers named-based virtual hosting:



 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hethmon-mcmurray-ftp-hosts-11



4.2 Alter passive/active on failure and retry
@@ -361,11 +359,7 @@ to provide the data to send. 
 Work out a common method with Peter Sylvester's OpenSSL-patch for SRP on the

 TLS to provide name and password. GnuTLS already supports it...



8.3 non-blocking



 Fix the connection phase to be non-blocking when multi interface is used



8.4 check connection

8.3 check connection



 Add a way to check if the connection seems to be alive, to correspond to the

 SSL_peak() way we use with OpenSSL.
@@ -378,22 +372,14 @@ to provide the data to send. 
   lib/ldap.c source file and get moved to the main network code so that the

   multi interface and friends will work for LDAP as well.



9.2 stop TFTP blocking



  Stop TFTP from being blocking and doing its own read loop in tftp_do.



10. New protocols



10.1 RTSP



 RFC2326 (protocol - very HTTP-like, also contains URL description)



10.2 RSYNC

10.1 RSYNC



 There's no RFC for protocol nor URI/URL format.  An implementation should

 most probably use an existing rsync library, such as librsync.



10.3 RTMP

10.2 RTMP



 There exists a patch that claims to introduce this protocol:

 http://osdir.com/ml/gnu.gnash.devel2/2006-11/msg00278.html, further details