Eric at Lucii.org on 25 Mar 2014 11:59:20 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] check for a file being transmitted via ftp


On 03/25/2014 02:45 PM, Matt Mossholder wrote:

> You could also handle it in a similar way to things like bittorrent... transmit the file as $filename.part, and when the transmit is finished, have the sender use the rename FTP command to change the name to $filename.
> 
>      --Matt

I like this too - although I may not be able to convince the sender to alter their process (but I will ask.)
It would be good to combine it with the MD5 sum idea.

Thanks,
Eric
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