[Twisted-Python] FTPClient - aborting transfers

[exarkun at twistedmatrix.com]

On 9 Sep, 01:28 pm, matt at bennett.name wrote:
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>
>The only reference to dtpInstance I can find in
>twisted/protocols/ftp.py exists on the FTP class. I may be confused,
>but I thought this class was the protocol for FTP servers, rather than
>clients?

You're right, I wasn't thinking about clients.
>In my attempt to find and stop *something* on the FTPClient, I ended
>up calling finish() on the IFinishableConsumer passed into
>FileSender's send method. This seems to stop the transfer in the store
>case, but unfortunately I'm no closer to a solution when retrieving a
>file.
>
>Am I missing something?

It seems FTPClient doesn't really keep track of enough objects to make 
this easy.  A patch addressing this would be welcome.

Jean-Paul