There is an FTP server and there are files on the server. How can I read them without downloading to a computer? Files weigh a lot, downloading takes a very long time, and it is planned to process many such files.

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    reading and downloading are the same thing. the file should somehow appear on your computer, which means it should go through the network - Mike
  • just download .. or add a service to the server that will send a portion of the data from the file on request - a dubious decision. And to speed up processing asynchronously process files - Volodymyr
  • What does reading mean to you? Tell us more about your task. Maybe it is enough for you to download files not entirely, but in fragments. Or maybe you just need a list of files? - VladD February
  • A search will be organized for files with the .nc extension from this ftp server - eclipse.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/seawinds/SI/uv/daily/netcdf . The dates (beginning, end) are given, for which data is needed, the coordinates - latitude, longitude. The data from the files are needed not all, but only those that satisfy the search condition (latitude, longitude). - Alexandra
  • If you need a quick search on this data, it’s better to download and index them, i.e. make your base, and search already in it. Yes, it will be necessary to take fresh data and add it to the database, but it will be a relatively quick operation. - Primus Singularis

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No At all.

It's like trying to read a book from the library without going into the library and not taking it in hand :)

If you need to read the file - you need to download it anyway.

At least as a temporary file or download the file into RAM.