On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Mohan Sundaram<[email protected]> wrote: > > If what you need to do is monitor the box and upload images without > any heavy duty web application for configuration etc, I'll go with > netcat to execute the utilities and pipe the output to the connection > and wget/curl/socat in conjunction with it to fetch/ images files from > your repository. If your access is security sensitive and worries > about password going in clear text, then use a webserver like boa or > GoAhead. > > IMHO, fetching the images using these utilities on the box is a better > approach than trying to upload an image using http(s). Further, these > utilities support retries/ resumes which will be useful in times of > flaky access.
Replying to my own post. I'm proven to be a dinosaur :-(. Discovered that a SSL capable nc (that too two different options) is available [1] [2]. Your clear text worries get addressed then. -- Mohan Sundaram Links: [1] http://www.gomor.org/bin/view/GomorOrg/SslNetcat [2] http://cryptcat.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
