[rabbitmq-discuss] File transfers

[David Pollak]

On Dec 27, 2007 7:15 AM, Tony Garnock-Jones <tonyg at lshift.net> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> David Pollak wrote:
> > I've been looking through the Rabbit documentation and examples.  I have
> > not found a way send a File.  Sure... I can send chunks of bytes, but I
> > haven't found the way to Stage a File.  Can someone lend me a clue as to
> > how to do this?
>
> We haven't implemented the File.* class yet.
>
> Alternatively, although it's a bit of work, what about using Basic.* to
> encode the file transfer?


It's not my first choice, but given my time-frames, I guess that's what I'll
have to do.

Thanks,

David

PS -- I'm currently implementing an encrypted session mechanism that does a
handshake with authentication and all the subsequent messages are encrypted
using the secret shared during the handshake.  It solves the "using Rabbit
in the Wild" problem without SSL.  I should have some code posted in a few
days.


>
>
> At
> https://wiki.108.redhat.com/wiki/index.php/AMQP:Alternative_File_Transfer,
> some months ago, I experimented with what this might look like. I'm not
> sure if the specific proposal is acceptable as a file transfer service,
> of course, but in my opinion layering functionality such as file
> transfer over top of Basic.*, in a standard way, seems like the right
> thing to do, rather than having it part of the core messaging protocol.
>
> (Actually, 108.redhat.com needs a login; I've put the same text up on
> our dev wiki, at https://dev.rabbitmq.com/wiki/AlternativeFileTransfer)
>
> Comments on the proposal are welcome.
>
> Regards,
>  Tony
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