kioslave FTP - working on new features

[Juergen Pfennig]

Hello,
David Faure suggested that I could work on some FTP enhancements. To start 
with the most important point: doing so could take same time (several weeks). 
If somebody can do it faster and wants to do it please let me know.

(1) A problem with symbolic links (bug #57172)

The kioslave ignores the existence of sym links (and hard links too). In some 
circumstances downloads could handle sym links, but uploads cannot (no sym 
link support in FTP). Kio seems to provide no infrastructure for sym links. 
Ftp would use some known behaviour of kio (konqueror) to avoid extra round 
trips for sym link detection (before a transfer is started, kio does a 
detailed dir list, this info contains the sym-link target and could be cached 
by ftp). Does somebody have better ideas?

(2) SSL Support (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66117)

This requires the use of TcpSlaveBase? Right? Does that stuff work?
How maintains it (George Staikos?). That code contains a lot of "FIXME" 
comments. Could be difficult to integrate with ftp.

(3) EPLF parsing (strange kind of dir listing)

Does somebody use EPLF? D.J Bernstein does not mention sym links in his docu 
at: http://cr.yp.to/ftp/list/eplf.html (I did not really read it). Any 
suggestions?

Yours Jürgen