On Sat, September 30, 2006 5:25 am, Nick Wilson wrote:
> yes. i'd considered rsync but the file needs to be available on the
> image server immediately. scp'ing it should work, but of course imnow
> having fun with the apache user and try9ing to work out how to give it
> an ssh profile :)

Here's your first problem.

There *IS* no such thing as "immediately" in this world.

It's a nonsense word in this context.

How much time do you REALLY have here as a constraint?

Re-think this carefully, because any answer that doesn't provide at
least a few seconds is just plain Wrong. :-)

Now, once you've got "immediately" out of your head, ponder whether or
not the user really wants to sit around, even for a few extra seconds,
while *YOU* dink around with this scp stuff.

I don't.

Would you?

Of course not!

The user wants to upload the file, and then use those seconds to do
something else useful, instead of watching your locked-up web
application do "nothing" that is useful to them.

If that LAMP/thttp connection gets slogged by a lot of uploads, the
LAST thing you want is all your users sitting around *waiting* on that
task which is, by definition, out-of-band with what the user wants to
do.

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