FTPAPI question

[Christian <chrisv5@xxxxxx>]

Sender: Christian <chrisv5@xxxxxx>

I have a couple of questions on my mind, but cannot really focus on them 
right now. Thus I hope that i am forgiven if I keep asking them one be 
one. Right now I'd like to know this:

Why is there support for multiple sessions in FTPAPI? It uses 
non-blocking sockets and it is not threaded, thus everything is 
sequential anyway. This is actually a problem cause most FTP servers I 
am aware of have the habit of timing out a connection rather quickly. 
Hence the "keep alive" stuff in many generic FTP clients (which is not 
handled by FTPAPI in any way).

I'd like to hear rationales and use cases for multiple sessions (so far, 
 I have only heard about people having too few sessions; the very same 
who never close a session). I do not want to hear any evangelism. Fear 
not, I do not plan to remove support for multiple sessions (actually, I 
am more concerned about making them thread safe, if they aren't 
already), unless there is an unanimous vote for that. Just want to 
understand the need better.


Regards,
Christian
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