Re: sFTP overhead (General questions)

by Robert, Thursday, December 07, 2006, 17:14 (6561 days ago) @ woddrazen

Drazen,

Thanks for replying so quickly...

The reason I was asking about the overhead is because the customer that we are doing the work for would like to have some idea of the additional traffic on the network. They will need to assess if more bandwidth is required at their remote locations.

So, for connection establishment, there is obviously a bit more data going through and that's fine. During the file transfer (and some of their files run into the MB range on a daily basis), do you know how much additional data is being added to account for the encryption?

I believe I would be looking at the COM component of wodSFTP. Our application run in the background and do not have a user interface, therefore no GUI is required. We also don't have a requirement to support sFTP AND FTP. This would be a replacement of the current FTP process. So it would seem the wodSFTP would fit nicely.

This is probably in the documentation somewhere, but can you tell me if the Resume functionality is supported? On both uploads and downloads?

Actually, we implemented SSL (not FTP-SSL) to encrypt messages traveling to/from our server application in a transactional environment (request/reply) - not files. Our application does do FTP in a separate process, but the transfer is not encrypted (yet...)

yes, I will at least be downloading the evaluation copy.

Thanks,

-- Robert