Everything about Gifts totally explained
giFT Internet File Transfer (
giFT) is a
computer software daemon that allows several
file sharing protocols to be used with a simple client having a
graphical user interface (GUI). The client dynamically loads
plugins implementing the protocols, as they're required. The
protocols
are:
The clients communicate with the giFT process using a lightweight
network protocol; the protocol code is completely abstracted from the
user interface. There are already several giFT
GUI front-ends for
Microsoft Windows,
Apple Macintosh, and
Unix-like operating systems.
The name
giFT is a
recursive acronym.
giFT is written using relatively
cross-platform C code.
giFT currently lacks
unicode support included, and it's impossible to share files with characters such as "ø","ä", "å", "é", "è", "ó", "ö", "ù", "ü" in their names.
OpenFT protocol
giFT's sibling project is
OpenFT, a
peer-to-peer file sharing
network protocol that has 'search' nodes and 'index'
supernodes in addition to common
nodes. According to the giFT documentation:
Search nodes handle search requests. They search the filelists their CHILD (common) nodes submitted to them. These nodes must have a capable Internet connection and at least 128M RAM. A modern processor is highly recommended as well.
and
INDEX nodes keep lists of available search nodes, collect statistics, and try to maintain the structure of the network.
giFT front-ends
Further Information
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