FTPnet

FTPnet, now defunct, was a HTML frontend for several FTP servers. The frontend would index the ftp-servers based on regular expressions, and parse the data into organized categories. Users using the frontend would simply see a unified view of all the content stored across several ftp servers.

Features

  • FTP crawler to index server contents
    • Obeyed rules in ftpspider file, which was similar to a robots.txt file in that it informed the crawler what is should index, what categories to use, and what regular expressions to sue
  • Download basket and Java-based downloader
  • User tracking & download logging
  • Download statistics generation
    • Most popular given a period
    • Most popular of all time
    • Most popular of a given category
  • Presented user with mirror choice in the case of duplicate files across more than one server
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