Implement site-to-site FXP feature

[giampaolo]

From billiej...@gmail.com on September 07, 2007 19:54:03

Description:

FXP is part of the name of a popular Windows FTP client: 
http://www.flashfxp.com . This client has made the name "FXP" commonly used
as a synonym for site-to-site FTP transfers, for transferring a file
between two remote FTP servers without the transfer going through the
client's host. Sometimes "FXP" is referred to as a protocol; in fact, it is
not. The site-to-site transfer capability was deliberately designed into
RFC 959. More info can be found here: 
http://www.proftpd.org/docs/howto/FXP.html .


Implementation:

Actually pyftpdlib does not allow site-to-site transfers.
Because of a type of attack known as the "FTP bounce" attack: 
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-27.html ...it will reject any connection 
from/to remote IP addresses which do not
match the client's IP address.

However, some site administrators may want to allow their servers to
support site-to-site transfers. 
pyftpdlib should provide a variable to allow administrators to disable
bounce protection for cases where FXP site-to-site transfer capability is
desired.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/issues/detail?id=36

[giampaolo]

From billiej...@gmail.com on September 07, 2007 11:04:54

Implemented in SVN, revision #90 .

Summary: Implement site-to-site FXP feature
Status: Finished

[giampaolo]

From billiej...@gmail.com on September 07, 2007 15:50:43

Labels: Milestone-0.2.0

[giampaolo]

From billiej...@gmail.com on September 17, 2007 09:47:08

Status: Fixed

[giampaolo]

From billiej...@gmail.com on May 02, 2008 11:27:42

Labels: Version-0.1.1

[giampaolo]

From billiej...@gmail.com on October 13, 2008 12:13:14

Labels: Component-Library

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on August 11, 2010 15:20:01

Owner: g.rodola