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cboxdoerfer / fsearch

A fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK3
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ETP Protocol [Suggestion] #380

Open DRSDavidSoft opened 2 years ago

DRSDavidSoft commented 2 years ago

Hi there,

I just discovered FSearch, and I'm very excited to see such a good alternative to Everything for Linux!

One of the features of Everything is the ETP Protcol, an extension to the FTP protocol with a custom EVERYTHING command that allows a client to query a server for files.

More information about this is available here: https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1790

I was wondering if it would be possible for FSearch to provide a ETP server feature, where other FSearch clients and/or Everything can be connected to it so alongside tools like Samba/CIFS utilities, search queries could be sent to the FSearch instance.

If so, I'd appreciate it if you could implement this feature in the future!

cboxdoerfer commented 2 years ago

Hi,

thanks for the feature request. At first glance I don't see why that shouldn't be possible to implement. However since I personally have no need for that and there's already a pretty long TODO list of things I want to work on, I don't think I will implement this in the foreseeable future. But of course if someone else wants to work on that, then let me know and I'll help guiding them.