Re: [Wttools-devel] I am back from my leave

[Artur H. <wis...@wp...>]

Hello,

> i have some questions about the tools. how will these tools be used in a
> later stage, say, if you have a running protocol, e.g. the http protocol
> implemented in java, how is this protocol later used/included in the overall
> software?
notice that our tools could be divided into several parts or levels.
One of them is library level. We can't make applications which will be testing
ftp server if we haven't ftp protocol implementation.
Of cource we can implement ftp in every tool we develope but it isn't very
efficient. instead I plane to make implementation of popular internet protocols
http, ftp, smtp, nntp and so on
and after that we can create real test tools.
In addition if we have protocols implementation and other library we can
provide our libraries separatelly for use in other projects or software.

> where and from whom are these protcols used? should they replace
> the protocols provided by the operating system or should it be possible to
> instantiate such a protocol from another class?
First of all our protocols implementation will be used by our testing tools.
If our protocols implementation will be very good, I hope it will be used
by other projects, software, developers instead of existing protocols
implementation in Java library or other programming languages.
Notice that only protocols implementation provided by operating systems
are TCP, UDP, IP and lower OSI levels.
Higher level protocols such as HTTP, FTP and so on are not provided by
operating systems. They are implemented in all applications such
internet clients: mail clients, web browsers, news clients, ftp "browsers"
and by internet servers: http severs-apache, netscape, IIS, ftp servers,
mail servers - sendmail, qmail and so on.

As the first web client I plane to create is http client which will be gathering
statistics
about WWW content and applications:
1. what http servers are used
2. what technology are used to server html pages
3. what specification level are supported by server side software
4. Gathering some statistics about server content - count of pages, urls, count of
different
    kind of documents and so on.
and so on
but it make sense only for http technology. For ftp technology there are some other
testing necesary.

> anyway, as i told you the last time i will care about the java/ftp protocol
Yes I sough.
Look at https://sourceforge.net/pm/task.php
I added tak for you - ftp java implementation.
As I could see you successfuly tried to use our cvs repository.
thats good. I wait for some new code from you.
good luck.

I anything isn't clear yet please send questions to me.

regards
Artur Hefczyc

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