Fwd: Testing Yuri's filebrowser plugin

[Albert Vaca]

Forwarding to the list.


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From: Yuri Samoilenko <kinnalru at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: Testing Yuri's filebrowser plugin
To: Albert Vaca <albertvaka at gmail.com>


I have spend a lot of time to test sftp browsing today... It is terrible :)

1. scp and sshfs(mounting filesystem using FUSE) working very well and
stable with org.apache.sshd:sshd-core:0.8.0
2. Latests sshd version is 0.9.0 not working at all(disconnects client
when creating file) - waiting for fixing...
3. Using sftp-kio failed to copy some files to device because of
libssh "Short sftp packet!" error. I don't know yet bug this or not
and where - in libssh or in apache-sshd. But in any case its related
to apache-ssh implementation because of sftp-kio work well with
generic openssh server. I will play with libssh, libssh2 and sftp-kio
this week.

About using SSL keys - I don't know how to share SSL key with
sftp-kio. May be if kdeconnect uses RSA key it can be converted to ssh
format and placed to ~/.ssh/ when paired - then sftp-kio can
automatically get it throught libssh generic auth procedure. May be we
can write own KIO-slave by mirroring sftp-kio but with own majong and
geishas.

About ipv6: as I found ipv6 must transparently handled by KUrl. How
Your phone gives ipv6 address but your desktop not able to connect to
this IP? Phone have a couple of adresses?

There is many blog post about hard work of KDE Frameworks 5 do you
know anything about future of KIO project? WIll it be a tier1 2 or 3?
As I thought KIO is great but using it only through KDE GUI tools like
Dolphin, Konqueror is ugly in comparing with gvfs
technology(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVFS) wich can grant access
not only for special apps but for all including console utilities.


2014/1/11 Albert Vaca <albertvaka at gmail.com>:
> Yesterday I was able to test the filebrowse git branch and I really believe
> that this can become an awesomely powerful feature. Also, the idea of
> re-using the SFTP KIO is very clever and now that I saw it working it seems
> to me the best way to go. I made a visit to the Plasma sprint in Barcelona,
> and the people I talked with also think the same way.
>
> I want to comment the issues I found, to see if we can find a solution for
> them.
>
> First of all, I received an IPv6 from the phone, that looks like this:
> fe80::bcf5:acff:fef4:d2d7%p2p0. For some reason I was not able to connect to
> that IP, so I had to temporally fix it hardcoding my device IPv4. Also note
> that the syntax to specify a port on IPv6 is different than usual, and I
> think that KURL is not taking that into account (maybe we can patch it):
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Literal_IPv6_addresses_in_network_resource_identifiers
>
> Then I was able to connect, so I assume that if I had IPv6 disabled it would
> have worked out of the box, which is good for something still in
> development. The second problem I found is that when transfering files
> through the KIO I got them corrupted, but somehow it worked copying using
> the sftp command and received everything correctly. Could this be a bug in
> the SFTP KIO?
>
> And that's all I got from my test, the only think left to say is good job
> Yuri! Did you found those problems too, or are specific to my setup?
>
> Cheers,
> Albert
>
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