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NFR: iRODS support

Posted: 2020-02-11 17:38
by darwinjob
Hi
Have you ever considered to introduce iRODS https://irods.org support in FileZilla/FileZilla PRO?

The only GUI tool capable of uploading large files into iRODS is Cyberduck

Best regards
D

Re: NFR: iRODS support

Posted: 2020-02-11 21:28
by botg
First time I hear of this, seems rather niche. Can't iRODS in turn just implement FTP?

Re: NFR: iRODS support

Posted: 2020-02-17 11:26
by darwinjob
Can't iRODS in turn just implement FTP?
I guess they could.

I can also imagine cross-breeding these two to achieve FTP like functionality:
https://github.com/apache/mina-ftpserver
https://github.com/DICE-UNC/jargon

However, iRODS is more complex than that, for example there's a metadata (attribute-value-units triples, AVUs) feature which can't be mapped to FTP directly.