[thelist] client driven ftp access

[matt newell]

if you are really dealing with files of 50~megs/piece .. i dont think i
would trust a web interface to make sure they get there... i have yet to
see a good "progress of upload" script show you when its done/complete.


if your clients are dealing with you on an ongoing basis with these size
and kids of files (zip?) it might be in the best interest to get them a
ftp client and setup an ftp server on the server for reliability.

if you want to make it a web interface it would consist of:

colfusion (can do it)
a combo of javascript and server side cgi (www.scriptsearch.com can help
with this)


this is not taking into account any sort of third party app. (does one
exist?) and to my knowledge a simple plug/play solution is yet to be had.




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On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Jason E. Burk wrote:

> i trying to figure out how to easily build ftp access into a web site
> for transferring customer files to a company.
> 
> what we would like to see happen is this:  client needs to send a file,
> so she goes to the company's website.  get's to the transfer files
> page.  clicks a "transfer files" button that brings up a browse dialog
> box.  finds the appropriate file on her hard drive.  clicks "ok."
> download process begins and ends.  file is transferred and client is
> happy.
> 
> now this sounds easy enough to this community i'm sure, but many clients
> that we deal with don't have much techie knowledge and don't even want
> to learn.  how do you ID10T proof the process so the most minimal of
> clicks is required to send your file?
> 
> my ideas are: 1)email 2)third party website 3)some fancy scripting
> 4)usps [he he]
> 
> [note:  let's assume that the files being transferred could be quite
> large, say 50mb]
> 
> 1)    limitations of sending attachments are well known.  sometimes
> limited to a certain size cap.  our email system is capable of accepting
> large attachments, but the operation of this function depends on the
> client's set up.  we don't want really want to depend on client side
> stuff.
> 
> 2)    third parties usually cost money.
> 
> 3)    what kind of scripting is easily written / available on the web to
> handle our simple request?  i'm not familiar with much other than
> javascript, and we want to make sure to have enough security that
> someone couldn't hack our ftp site.  we plan on giving out usernames and
> passwords to clients for the express use of this function on our
> website, so the script has to be compatible with the ftp user / pass
> process.
> 
> 4)    i was kidding.
> 
> if anyone can help sort this issue out, it will be much appreciated.  i
> owe you a coke.
> 
> jason
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