RFC913 Simple File Transfer Protocol

RFC913 Simple File Transfer Protocol Implementation. GitHub

The following project makes use of maven to manage dependencies and run the client/server.

For each of the respective components (i.e. server/client) there is a mnt directory. This directory is treated as the root of the filesystem on the server to ensure that clients are only allowed to transfer files from within that dir. If required, this can be modified by changing the mountDir in the server's Client class.

To easily test the application run the commands in the 'To simulate a client' section of this README. Correct Server responses can be found in comments alongside the commands being sent in the client/src/main/java/TestClient.java file.

Prerequisites

• Java 1.8
• Maven 3

Running

To run the server:

cd server
mvn install
mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="Server"

To run the client:

cd client
mvn install
mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="Client"

To simulate a client:

cd client
mvn install
mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="TestClient"

This sends a list of commands to the server so that the responses can be easily inspected. It also outputs the sent command to console to easily see the command being sent before the server output is shown.

Architecture

Server

The server runs by continuously listening for client connections. Once a client has connected, the server spins up a new thread and listens for commands. When a command comes in, if it exists in the list of supported commands then this command and context is passed to a new command object which will handle the request for the client, replying to the client as needed.

Client

The client runs by first connecting to the server on the pre-determined port. It then listens for user input on the command line and sends these commands to the server. For some of the commands (such as 'STOR', 'RETR', etc.) the client will run some validation on the command to ensure that the correct command is being sent or the file a user wishes to send actually exists in the folder.