It's a gift. πDon't let anyone else tell you different... That's definitely one of the approaches we're contemplating. All our servers are now hosted in AWS so we're paying someone anyway.
-- rk -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 10:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: File sharing services On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 6:23 PM Richard Kaye <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh Ted... Always with the questions... π > It's a gift. And a curse. The problem I've found with my Irish tendency to answer a question with a question is that it always seems to lead... to more questions. :) > We have a new web-based version of our auction system application > (built on top of WWWC) where inventory images are stored. We want to > provide a reasonable mechanism for the client to get all the images > associated with an auction. In some cases this could be several > thousand images. We're kicking around various ideas on how to do this. > By "api", which is a fancy new term I've learned now that I'm not just > writing VFP code anymore, I just mean some service that can > manipulated programmatically. For example, I could bundle up my files > and upload to some file transfer service and send the customer the link to > download that bundle. > So, you already have a web server set up. With WWWC. And a web app that shows the images that are all uploaded. And an ability for the sellers to register and manage their accounts. If you're planning to bundle up the files, why not just provide the customer a link on your web site and not pay someone else a premium to host the files? For security purposes (not that anyone couldn't already spider them off the site), you could require them to log in. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/CACW6n4v3ECQ+c0OY65xRy+Kxc44=tTh=lu+iqeeu3sexmez...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. Report [OT] Abuse: http://leafe.com/reportAbuse/CACW6n4v3ECQ+c0OY65xRy+Kxc44=tTh=lu+iqeeu3sexmez...@mail.gmail.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/mwhpr1001mb2144ff85dcf9d38fba304343d2...@mwhpr1001mb2144.namprd10.prod.outlook.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
