Re: saft port

[Alexander Hvostov <vulture@aoi.dyndns.org>]

Kozman,

SAFT is a nifty little protocol that lets you send a file to some other
user on the internet without them having to explicitly accept it. Instead,
the SAFT server will receive the file and place it in a queue for access
later on. The protocol itself is quite new; an implementation is in the
`sendfile' package. I strongly suggest checking it out.

This same thing, by the way, can also be done with email, with only one
small problem: most email servers will refuse emails exceeding a certain
(extremely conservative) size, making this protocol impractical for
transferring large files.

Regards,

Alex.

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Kozman Balint wrote:

> 
> Hi there, 
> 
> what is the funny saft (487 - udp/tcp) port? Is that a possible security
> hole?
> 
> Reagrds,
> 
> 	 Balint
> 
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