On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 20:56, Sasan Dashtinezhad wrote: > Hi guys, > > My question is more site-development related. > > What I plan to do is to distribute tasks to clients which will connect > to the Web server. Jobs are defined in files, residing on the server, > and clients have to be somehow authenticated (nothing really serious, > they just need to be privously registered in the site) My question is > what is a good and easy to implement way to do this?
A small registration form using a database system(e.g. MySQL, SQLLite,...) should do the trick. For authentication take a look at http://search.cpan.org/~abh/Apache-DBI-0.94/AuthDBI.pm > The other > constraint is that a program should be able to download a task too (no > user interaction is allowed.) > > I was thinking of having the files defining the jobs in a password > protected directory and then making the programs send the username and > password to the server. But I don't know how to do that. The other If you are using HTTP-authentification you could the use HTTP-libs the language you've chosen provides? What is the language you've written your client-app in? e.g. Java => http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/ e.g. Perl => http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.76/ ... Tom > problemm is that I'm not really happy with this desing, and was thinking > that there might be better ways to do it. Yet another problem is that > how will the client download the file? I was hoping to redirect the > client to the URL to the file. Is there a better way to do this...? > > Has anybody done this before? Any suggestions or comments are welcome. > > Sorry folks, but I'm just new to all of this... > > Cheers, > --Sasan -- \\\||/// \\ - - // ( @ @ ) -oOo--( )--oOo---------------------------------------------------------- ___ ___ tom schindl o __ / / / innovative medientechnik planung AG / /\/\/ / / /__/ / __ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / / / / /_/ / / /___/ http://www.impire.de / voice:+43(512)34193431,fax:+43(512)34193420 Eduard-Bodem-Gasse 6, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria, Software Engineering ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
