How about WebDAV (same as .Mac)? Already built into Mac and windows with drag and drop. You could use this as a drop box and then run a cron script to invoke witango to do something with the files. Of course, authentication would be completely unintegrated -- http authentication for WebDav, and whatever you do for witango on the application side.
-- Bill ---------- Original Message ----------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:33:19 +0100 Subject: Witango-Talk: Simple file upload server on OS X 10.4.8 > I have a client with a file upload/download server setup 7 or 8 > years ago. It's based on Mac OS 9.2, WebSTAR 4.5 with http uploads > using the WebSTAR File Upload plugin via a very simple webpage. They > use Tango 3.5 on the same server for Filemaker database searches > > Having dragged them kicking & screaming into the new Milllenium > (with OS X 10.4.8) for everything else, I'd like to retire this > server - their last OS 9 box > > They have an Xserve (G4, tray load, 1 GHz, 2 Gb RAM, single > processor) running OSXS 10.4.8 (Apache, MySQL, PHP as installed by > default). I'd like to work with what's there and provide an http > upload & download facility but there's no default file upload plugin > > I've looked at many PHP plugins but I've not found anything exactly > suitable and I'm not qualified to say if these solutions are secure > or not. I know I can build /modify one in Witango pretty quickly. > The requirements are: > > * an admin webpage to setup usernames & passwords for new accounts > * upload directories created automagically for new accounts > * users to be able to see & upload / download in their directory only > * maximum file size to be 200 Mb (largest files now are ~ 100 Mb) > * useage is light - maybe 2-20 files a day, max, from 2-10 users > > The questions are: > > * is Witango stable enough for uploading files of this size? > * is there an existing project I can modify? (I have upload.taf from > the Developers site) * can this be done with Witango Lite? * if > Witango isn't suitable can anyone point me at a PHP alternative? > > I've read all the posts in the June 2006 "Question: Upload doesn't > work in Safari" thread and paid heed to Robert Garcia's post. Thank > you, Robert > > Many thanks > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ------- End of Original Message ------- ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
