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This article is about the filesharing computer software giFT. For other uses, see Gift (disambiguation).
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 are 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 is impossible to share files with characters such as "ø","ä", "å", "é", "è", "ó", "ö", "ù", "ü" in their names.[citation needed] giFT (and other multi-protocol implemenations) lacks many features needed to use the Gnutella network effectively.
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
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