Yes, shouldn't take to much work. On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 6:01 PM, John Kinsella <j...@stratosec.co> wrote: > You mean to load files off the management server, yea? That makes sense to me > > On Feb 20, 2014, at 3:14 AM, Daan Hoogland > <daan.hoogl...@gmail.com<mailto:daan.hoogl...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > why not a allowing a simple file:///home/me/my.template kind of url? > > for simple installations this should do. > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:42 PM, John Kinsella > <j...@stratosec.co<mailto:j...@stratosec.co>> wrote: > We definitely need to support more than http download. http upload sounds > interesting, but I'd love to see something more resilient for large uploads. > How 'bout specifying a "drop folder" type location on the mgmt server that > the server polls every 15 seconds for new files, then in the UI the user can > pick from the files shown there? Not as secure as your browser upload > pattern, though. > > Maybe use something like https://github.com/blueimp/jquery-file-upload that > allows resumable uploads? > > Just had the thought of maybe adding support for > dropbox/box.net/etc<http://box.net/etc>. At that point, an ImageFetch plugin > hook starts to sound interesting. Adding a bit torrent plugin could make > getting the default templates quite snappy. :) > > > On Feb 19, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Chiradeep Vittal > <chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com<mailto:chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com>> wrote: > > Hi all, > > The fact that one has to have a HTTP server to host templates before the > templates can be imported into secondary storage is an inconvenience. I am > not sure how much of an inconvenience it is, but I was asked to detail the > technical architecture, if it needed to be supported. Certainly, I can > imagine for folks coming in contact with ACS for the first time, it might > seem onerous to set up another web server. > > I've sketched a strawman proposal [1] to support browser-based uploads of > templates and volumes to secondary storage. > It is not yet a PROPOSAL since it is still raw (and I do not have time to > work on this immediately). > > Please comment on this. > [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/jY5cAg > > > > > > -- > Daan > > Stratosec<http://stratosec.co/> - Compliance as a Service > o: 415.315.9385 > @johnlkinsella<http://twitter.com/johnlkinsella> >
-- Daan
