Feature Request: On the fly compression
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Feature Request: On the fly compression
A nice feature to offer would be on the fly compression between client and server. Something like new HTTP servers and browsers do currently with web content.
Bandwidth savings could be pretty immense depending on the file types (images obviously won't compress much at all )
What's the verdict?
Bandwidth savings could be pretty immense depending on the file types (images obviously won't compress much at all )
What's the verdict?
Last edited by drofekawp on 2004-04-28 23:07, edited 2 times in total.
Does FileZilla support SSH2?
In CuteFTP Pro there's an option under SSH2 security that allows you to configure zlib compression on the outbound payload. This could be created as a separate feature, for non secure transfers in FileZilla?
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Yes, it's still based on original file size (anything else makes no sense)
Thus the transferspeed may even appear hight than the best physical transfer speed possible for 'simple' (easy to compres) files.
If FZ would use the physical speed as measurement for compressed transfers, a lot of problems would arise. Especially if the file contents change dramatically during the transfer. Timeleft indicator would present total bogus values in that case.
Thus the transferspeed may even appear hight than the best physical transfer speed possible for 'simple' (easy to compres) files.
If FZ would use the physical speed as measurement for compressed transfers, a lot of problems would arise. Especially if the file contents change dramatically during the transfer. Timeleft indicator would present total bogus values in that case.
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I understand that it's nearly impossible to have an accurate count, but with a solid and stable 192KBps connection, at best, I've notiched FileZilla showing 2KB/s and the estimated time to finish the transfer is typically months, if not years. To me, this would seem to be very confusing to the average user who doesn't quite grasp how compression works with FTP -- it might give then a false sense that FZ is slower than it actually is.