[Twisted-Python] FTP Proxy

exarkun at twistedmatrix.com exarkun at twistedmatrix.com
Mon Nov 7 06:35:24 MST 2011


On 09:01 am, einar.twisted at norsk-esport.no wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I need to develop a customised FTP proxy for one of our systems, and
>would like to consider Twisted for this project.
>
>The t.p.ftp module seems to have the server and the client more or
>less ready to use, so I think I am good to start, but just wanted to
>check with you guys if there are any gotchas that I should be aware
>of. The system is intended to work as follows:
>
>- Users authenticate directly with the proxy, not the backend-server,
>using a Drupal site for authentication (either through some sort of
>API-call or by accessing the database directly - to be decided)
>- The client-part of the proxy connects with a master-user/password to
>one or more backend FTP-servers running in passive mode behind
>firewalls.
>- The master-user has access to the union of all file and directory
>sets that each individual user has access to.
>- The root folder presented to the user should contain either all the
>available hosts, or a virtualised overview of all main directories on
>all the hosts that the user may access.
>- Any file access or directory listing will be filtered against an ACL
>to allow only certain files and directories to be accessed by the
>user.
>
>Is there anything I should be aware of that may be a showstopper or
>otherwise overly complicate this project by using t.p.ftp, or am I
>good to go?
>
>Will producers/consumers be an appropriate way of transferring data
>between the client-part and the server-part of the proxy, and is
>t.p.pcp something I should look into?

twisted.protocols.pcp isn't that useful.  You can probably build what 
you need without it.

Jean-Paul
>Any suggestions, especially mentions of/links to similar projects,
>would be most helpful and appreciated.
>
>Cheers,
>Einar S. Ids9
>
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