FTP plugin issues
Submitted by on Thursday, 22 January, 2009 - 23:32
Firstly I think this plugin is great, but I do have a few issues with it.
I only use the SFTP component of the plugin so all my issues relate to that. I did start pulling apart the code to see if I could fix some of these myself but I'm not that familiar with java or ant so I didn't get to far (yet).
60 second session timeout - I regularly work with servers that take 10-15 seconds to reauthenticate each time so this setting is a huge pain, can an option be put in to let people change the timeout value (I've altered the hard coded value in mine to be 1 day).
SFTPConnection::showMessage() function - This only seems to run for me when I reconnect to a server, it will simply display the MOTD file. Would it be possible to have a tick box to say "don't display these messages in the future" that stored either the whole message or a hash and avoided redisplaying them if they matched? (I currently just have the contents of that function commented out).
Authentication fail - if I type my password wrong I have to shutdown jEdit to be able to enter a new password. This is annoying enough on it's own, but in our environment a few password failures locks out our accounts, meaning if I don't remember to shutdown jEdit as soon as I receive the auth fail dialog I'm very likely to lock out my account on at least one server.
Keep up the good work.
If I can find some more time to play with this again I may try and implement these myself and send patches back, but I thought for now I'd just post and see if anyone else might fix them for me
I only use the SFTP component of the plugin so all my issues relate to that. I did start pulling apart the code to see if I could fix some of these myself but I'm not that familiar with java or ant so I didn't get to far (yet).
60 second session timeout - I regularly work with servers that take 10-15 seconds to reauthenticate each time so this setting is a huge pain, can an option be put in to let people change the timeout value (I've altered the hard coded value in mine to be 1 day).
SFTPConnection::showMessage() function - This only seems to run for me when I reconnect to a server, it will simply display the MOTD file. Would it be possible to have a tick box to say "don't display these messages in the future" that stored either the whole message or a hash and avoided redisplaying them if they matched? (I currently just have the contents of that function commented out).
Authentication fail - if I type my password wrong I have to shutdown jEdit to be able to enter a new password. This is annoying enough on it's own, but in our environment a few password failures locks out our accounts, meaning if I don't remember to shutdown jEdit as soon as I receive the auth fail dialog I'm very likely to lock out my account on at least one server.
Keep up the good work.
If I can find some more time to play with this again I may try and implement these myself and send patches back, but I thought for now I'd just post and see if anyone else might fix them for me
