Forums Feature Suggestions New DCC option

How about adding an option to DCC transfer, entitled "Request Resend". So if the connection gets interrupted, and the sender is away, the reciver should send a request for the file.

why don't you just message the person and ask them to resend? Hopefully you are talking about legal files here and not fileservers and xdcc bots. WE don't help with illegal downloads.

Becuase he said they were away.



If he were talking about them then he wouldnt need this option since they well resend either by another send command or by requeue



I saw no mention of any illegal downloads here.


On the subject:

I dont see why mirc couldnt have this feature added as a mirc added feature to dcc sends, the sender can have an option to enable it either on all sends or on a per file basis, maybe a tick box on the dcc send window, the reciever can have the same, a tick box, to say, if it drops out contact and rerequest the file, if the sender has his tick box ticked (and assuming the window didnt auto close) his end well send it again. * Of course how it contacts might be a point, most liekly through the irc server, although ip to ip was esstablished already so maybe through it?

In my eyes this has nothing to do with illegal filesharing simply the ability to have a file resumed if for what ever reason your connection failed.

/help on getfail

hows that gonna help?

Maybe something like? hehehe..



-Andy

I think you and I both knew he ment something that would automate a resend, not just make a rrequest for one.

Yep indeed, if this could be implemented I'm all for it, not that I have much use for DCC sending, but somewhere our pathes may cross.

I have used mirc in a couple of pinches to get me stuff to remote pc's from somewhere else, Ill just get mirc running on each one, and send the file, there are plenty of betterways, but this is fast and simple, i have had occasions when the send has dropped out, but luckly there has been someone at the other end i can phone to send again, an option to allow it would be nice, as once was a friday afternoon at 5pm and everyone went home at the source site, and im sitting there going Damn i hope this dont stop.

I am trying to help him you don't need to breakdown my posts, thanks

*sigh* instead of requesting it, why not simply use on sendfail to resend it?

re-requesting it implied to me that it was "requested" in the first place (and implied that the other party had something setup to send "on request")

/me will stfu now and go away

Which bit of your post helped then?

Using sendfail would of course work, but using it implies an ability to script something in that is beyond alot of people, in fact i think its beyond 99% of people even ones here to script in a tickbox on the dcc send window that would enable or disable it, I know i cant do it as my mirc is.

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"Request Resend", is what he said, i think this sounded very legitimate, and when i read his post it sounded more like there was no automated sending going on.

[to people in general]
I sometimes see here a culture of refusal to help based apon the weakest of links to illegal filesharing, somoene says, i cant seem to get a file, i tried and it wont work, and they imediately get a read this thread, telling them no help is given with illegal filesharing etc etc, amagine a store when you went in for matches and were promptly told, we dont help with arson, you would be like what the frack?

Nevermind I wont try helping anymore since you such an expert.

Truth hurts, lol

I can relate to that .. all of a sudden he changes from "I don't do dcc" to an expert ...

You dont have to do something all the time to understand the process, do you?

-General note-

Can people stop being so arrogant to each other? I'm seeing it more and more, not just in this thread. If all you have to say is something unrelated to the thread-starter, and is just a bash at another poster, don't bother to click the Reply button. If you feel people are breaking forum rules, hit the 'Notify moderator' icon.

DaveC: The discussion about not helping with file sharing has been, as I am sure you're aware, brought up on numerous occasions and has been answered too. I don't think we need to go through it again!

Regards,

I was not requesting help for illegal filesharing, i was just asking for a new DCC send feature, which I think would be really useful.

Assign a random session number to a File/(Nickname/ID/IP) string pair, so if the file was not sent succesfully, the sender client should still remember the session, if "Auto Resend" is selected, and the one who requests the file has the previous nickname/ID or IP (to prevent "strangers" from requesting a certain file)

And another feature: think of a way for mIRC to prevent using "resume" on a different file from the original. I suppose it should send filesize (or MD5 signature) to the reciver, to recognise if it's an identical file.

It does send file size and name, thats how mirc matches up that it already has the file, but needs to resume it, the problem i see with what your saying is a check sum wold need to be sent at the start and remebered by the reciever (where ? another file i guess), ok ill recant that doesnt sound that hard, umm how long do MD5 sigs take to generate? I know that the $crc(filename) function of mirc is pretty slow on large files, then again what are you sending that is that large?