On Monday 09 April 2007 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd like to let a friend of mine to upload a file to my home server. It's a > one-off need. > > Does anyone know of a simple web application I can install to let him do > that through HTTP without too much hassle? > > I'm using Debian Etch.
You want it fast, good and cheap. Choose any two. Instead use ssh either on the standard, or your own port. HTTP way is not secure and not simple. This is as easy as apt-get openssh-server. Putty have easy winders tools for ssh, scp ssh tunneling is easy too if you are inside a don't-want-to-touch firewall. Nautalis and konqueror have fish:// protocols that work file-manager style eg on konqueror browse: fish://tigger.ws (must add :secret-port for this eg to work) and get a file manager with drag-n-drop James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
