Re: How to make ftp server less verbose

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From: io (iolshansky_at_agrilink-int.com)
Date: 06/25/04 

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 12:29:07 +0930

Thanks for info Alun, the reason to ask in the first place is CDMA 1x price
plans in Australia where they charge on transmitted data volume basis. It
happened that we need to transmit small files (~0.5K) every hour from CDMA
modem-equipped devices to our FTP server and we found that FTP protocol
overhead was forbiddingly high being ~1400 bytes in average for each
transfer. I think we need to look for some other solution, prob. come up
with proprietary protocol.

Cheers mate

""Alun Jones [MSFT]"" <alunj@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:k5DyocgWEHA.692@cpmsftngxa10.phx.gbl...
> > From: "io" <iolshansky@agrilink-int.com>
> >
> > Does anyone know how to make FTP server (IIS 5.0) less talkative, i.e.
> > returning command codes only rather than codes plus text? Is this
possible
> > at all?
>
> No, the response codes are all hard-coded.
>
> What purpose would you hope to serve by removing the text? Note that
there
> are several messages that actually require specific textual contents
> (responses to PASV, MKD, STOU, etc) - and others where the response text
is
> often used by clients (response to RETR, LIST, etc).
>
> Given that many network protocols enforce a minimum packet size anyway,
and
> would pad short responses out to that size, what would be the reason to
> remove the text?
>
> Alun.
> ~~~~
>

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