Copy / Move on FTP Server

[DwieDave]

Hello, the Plugin is really great but the only thing I'm missing is to copy / and move Files on a FTP Server.

Best Regards
DwieDave

[morassman]

There's a lot around file system operations that I still want to do. I'll look into this some time. Moving a file is straight forward. I'm not too sure about folders, but I'll look into it.

Copying is a bit of an issue. The FTP protocol unfortunately doesn't support copying something on the server to another location. One can just upload and download. Copying something will therefore have to involve first downloading it and then uploading it again. Of course this will happen transparently, but it will be rather slow.

[DwieDave]

Or you may could implement a 'duplicate' function, and with a working Move Function this would be perfect.

[morassman]

The FTP protocol doesn't support duplicate either. Duplicating will therefore perform the same process of first downloading and then uploading the file again. I can add a duplicate function, but unfortunately that is what it will come down to.

[DwieDave]

A Copy and Duplicate Function would be great. Drag and Drop would be overkill!
Thanks for your fast replies!

[akamkomputer]

Would „Duplicate“ for SFTP work?
and COPY with the help of scp perhaps?

:-) AK

[morassman]

Sorry @halloalexkern. I somehow missed your comment.

AFAIK SFTP doesn't support duplicate either. I'm limited to what the FTP and SFTP libraries and protocols are capable of. As for scp, I'll prefer to stick to the libraries' APIs and not external applications. It's also not guaranteed that the user has SCP installed, especially Windows users.