Client upload of files via http
Michael Mansour
micoots at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 29 01:01:53 UTC 2004
Hi,
--- Alexander Dalloz
<alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> Am Fr, den 29.10.2004 schrieb Eucke Warren um 0:03:
>
> > I have a potential customer who is looking to be
> able to upload and download
> > files via his and his clients browsers. Is this
> something that lftp is
> > suited for....anything else that anyone is using
> that is secure and user
> > friendly? Thoughts, risks, real world war/horror
> thoughts? I am assuming
> > that most of the use will be via IE....
> >
> > -Eucke
>
> Did you already have a look at WebDAV?
>
> FTP is insecure and a risk as data and especially
> the login data is
> transfered plainly. As you asked about capability of
> the IE, yes it can
> upload files to an FTP server.
>
> Alexander
Have you checked out the program cURL?
http://curl.haxx.se/
By default the package is installed on FC
(curl-7.11.1-1 on FC2 and curl-7.10.6-7 on FC1).
This will do pretty much everything you want and
supports secure transfers.
Michael.
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