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On 3 Dec 2007, at 15:08, Oliver Humpage wrote:

> How feasible is it to have a Flash app that's a drag-and-drop style  
> FTP
> client? Also, how feasible is it from a Flash PoV to tunnel the FTP
> connection over SSL (assuming I've got stunnel at the FTP server  
> end)? And
> don't say sftp, that's a *nightmare* to set up for individually  
> chrooted
> user folders, although I could possibly tunnel the FTP connection  
> over SSH
> instead of SSL if Flash is better at that.

Don't really see how it could be done in Flash, due to sandbox  
restrictions. There's no file I/O, beyond the standard HTTP/HTTPS  
FileReference.upload(), which doesn't give the client any access to  
the files themselves. It also offers no support for folder access. No  
drag and drop either. You could do it with AIR which offers all of the  
above, but that would somewhat defeat the idea of it being browser- 
based.



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