can i use this package with ftp protcol

[abdolrhman]

can i download files with ftp protocol instead of http ?

[hgouveia]

@abdolrhman at the moment does not support FTP, I will consider adding support in future releases

[abdolrhman]

I could help you with implementing FTP ...
I need to have this functinality for node-ftp,
as there is no ftp node package that implement this functialities .
what do u think ?

[hgouveia]

I could help you with implementing FTP ...
I need to have this functinality for node-ftp,
as there is no ftp node package that implement this functialities .
what do u think ?

I was checking this possibility earlier today but I didn't find a simple way of implementing using just native node.js since one of the goals of this library is not to have dependencies. Is possible to implement it completely native but I will end up creating an entire FTP client because you need to take in consideration a lot of scenarios, for example, Authorization, FTPS, TLS, etc

after some consideration, I think if any user needs to use FTP is better just to use node-ftp directly or another library that provides this functionality, I also was considering to have "plugins system" and this could be a plugin

[abdolrhman]

so your thinking to create a plugin for node-ftp or for any package that implements this protocl,
as for implememinting this functionalites ?
because i was thinking to do the same, till i saw your package.
so i thought we could close the gaps and create some thing similar for ftp

[hgouveia]

so your thinking to create a plugin for node-ftp or for any package that implements this protocl,
as for implememinting this functionalites ?
because i was thinking to do the same, till i saw your package.
so i thought we could close the gaps and create some thing similar for ftp

I was thinking more the possibility to add a plugin/middleware system to this library,

something like

const { DownloaderHelper } = require('node-downloader-helper');
const ftpPlugin = require('node-downloader-helper/ftp-plugin');
const dl = new DownloaderHelper('ftp://www.ovh.net/files/1Gio.dat', __dirname);

dl.use(ftpPlugin({user, pass, secure:true /*...more opts*/ )); // or DownloaderHelper.use(ftpPlugin);
dl.on('end', () => console.log('Download Completed'))
dl.start();

and basically will use ftpPlugin to handle the 'download' operation, and this can bring more possibilities to extended it

ftpPlugin could be just a wrapper of node-ftp to handle the download only, since we don't need to care about upload

[abdolrhman]

that would be a fantastic thing,
because from where i see , there is no package at all that implement the download from ftp with respect for (stop/ resume/ cancel ) the download,
implementing this will change the game,
And i think will attract alot of people,
because download by ftp is more secure and better than download from http.