For dealing with files you probably want to check out filed. https://github.com/mikeal/filed
On Feb 28, 2012, at February 28, 201212:54 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: > Connect the stream directly to a file. Check out "request" module by Mikeal. > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Thijs Koerselman > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am working on a system where some components can optionally run on remote > systems. These components produce files which all need to end up back on the > same central system. I am thinking about running a node upload server on the > main computer so that the others can upload their results from the remote > locations. > > Potentially there will be firewalls between the central computer and the > remote servers. Also the files will be mostly small but I can't rule out that > there will be big files to deal with in the future. > > What other options are there? Can libraries like dnode be used to transfer > large amounts of binary data? > > Any suggestions are welcome. > > After some more research I now think a good approach is to use the native net > module for this with TCP streaming, or maybe websockets. I couldn't find any > examples on how to transfer a file like this. Are they around somewhere? > > Thijs > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
