File Transfer UVNC compatible with tightVNC flavor ?

redge · Post by **redge** » 2005-01-13 23:53

it is possible to do it software compatibility for file transfer with UltraVNC and TightVNC ?

Post by **UltraSam** » 2005-01-14 14:47

jmblack · Post by **jmblack** » 2005-01-20 02:24

no?

Is the tightvnc implimentation bad design? Having ultravnc detect that it is connecting to a tightvnc client and use the tightvnc file transfer mode doesnt seem too ugly an option. Then again I havent looked at the tightvnc code...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 2005-01-20 13:29

The TightVNC FT is not ugly or badly implemented... and it seems to work, which is the primary goal in software developpement

It is simply not compatible with UltraVNC FT from the bottom.

To my knowledge, Tight FT started in 2003 (?) and has become more and more different from Ultra FT until now. I don't know if their protocole is "finished" or not right now.

UltraVNC FT protocole was initialiy designed in February 2002. At this time I proposed it to the Tight team as a wasn't planning to do my own public VNC version... they refused it for some reason.

Supporting the 2 FT protocoles would be too heavy in the current UltraVNC code base. We could do this but the weight of both the viewer and server would increase consequently. And I'm not sure their protocole is not going to change again.
Maybe later.

FYI, in UltraVNC 2 I plan to redisign the FT protocole or at least improve it in such a manner that backward compatibility with UltraVNC V1 will be broken.