On 2012-09-20 01:26, Hugh Brown wrote: > Hi everyone -- my department is running BASE version 2.12.1. We have > some users outside our department, and their network connection is > rather slow. At the moment, they're importing files rather > circuitously: uploading them to our server for pre-processing, > downloading the results, then uploading them to BASE via their > browser. The end result is many round trips for large data files. > > I'm wondering if BASE, perhaps through a plugin, supports importing > files from the server it's running on. I found a message from 2007 > about this idea > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/basedb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00218.html > > but as far as I can see, this is not in BASE2. Have I missed anything?
No, you have not missed anything. There is no functionality for importing files directly from the server. Although it would be possible to implement this as a plug-in or as an "External file extension" (but this require at least BASE 3.0). In any case, I can imagine all sorts of security/permission-related issues with this. > About the only other alternative I can think of is installing the FTP > server plugin, then have the users connect via FTP from the server > itself (ie, over the loopback interface). Is there any reason that > would not work? I think this would work very well. And if you only need the FTP support locally then there is no need to open up firewalls, etc. which is always a hassle with FTP. /Nicklas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ The BASE general discussion mailing list basedb-users@lists.sourceforge.net unsubscribe: send a mail with subject "unsubscribe" to basedb-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net
