Comments on: New Conduit Features

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:38:07 +0000

Just chasing this up - I’d love to see ssh-based network sync in Conduit, as I want to be able to sync between home desktop and laptop from different places around the world, and this missing feature means I’m having to stick with unison for now. Thanks!

By: Gatonegro

Gatonegro — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:45:01 +0000

I think that SSH support — especially through sshfs — is vital. If you want to update over the network two PCs,SSH provides standard and encrypted communication.

It wouldn’t be that hard to do, besides, provided that both machines have a fixed address or a network name: You’d just need to provide the user with a box for commands to execute before and after running conduit. That’d allow to mount and unmount the sshfs.

By: SilverTail

SilverTail — Sat, 17 May 2008 05:58:24 +0000

I See that Conduit 0.3.8 has been included as a part of The PcPlus [#268 2008-05] Essential Collection-Selected Linux software”

Congratulations

By: Mythulto

Mythulto — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:10:41 +0000

I liked Conduit 0.3.4, but I did a download/config/make/make install of 0.3.9 and can’t get it to run. Is there somewhere to get support?

By: FaberfoX

FaberfoX — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:25:49 +0000

John, thanks a lot for conduit, it’s amazing and can’t wait for the maemo version.
Just one quick question, do you plan to support alarms for evolution google calendar?

By: Tadeu

Tadeu — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:04:54 +0000

good work
thanks

By: ssam

ssam — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:40:26 +0000

I would vote for sending data over ssh. everyone trusts that it is secure.

By: infodroid

infodroid — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:21:04 +0000

Assuming your data is binary, your network file transfer should be possible using simple socket connection based on SocketServer. Once you have sockets opened, you dump bytes from one point and read them from the other. You can also use wrappers around libraries that already do this. For example pyOpenSSL.

If your data is not binary, but structured in some way, I would highly recommend doing something with XMLRPC. Its a breeze in Python.

By: David Adam

David Adam — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:18:48 +0000

Python pickles are also a bad idea to punt around over the network if you don’t absolutely trust the sender of the pickle. This means you need end-to-end encryption and authentication.

By: New Conduit Features

New Conduit Features — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:38:13 +0000

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