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#74 Feature request: rsync support

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rsync (1)
2014-02-20
2014-02-05
Dagobert Michelsen
No

It would be nice if curl would support the rsync protocol in a basic version without delta-sync. The usecase is where a list of files is represented by URLs which may be http://, ftp:// or rsync:// and a simple retrieval is needed. At the moment a switch in the enclosing code is needed to handle rsync as special case, acquire a temp file name and pull the contents from that tempfile instead of just curling the contents to stdout. Support for authentication would still be needed.

Discussion

  • Dagobert Michelsen

    Dagobert Michelsen - 2014-02-05

    As an example this requires wrapper code for the mirmon project: see "probing rsync sites" at http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~penni101/mirmon/

     

  • Dan Fandrich

    Dan Fandrich - 2014-02-05

    rsync support has been on the TODO list http://curl.haxx.se/docs/todo.html#RSYNC for more than 9 years. All it needs is someone who cares enough to actually implement it!

     

  • Daniel Stenberg

    Daniel Stenberg - 2014-02-20

    Ticket moved from /p/curl/bugs/1331/

    Can't be converted:

    • _priority: 5
     

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