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Re: Help with a little pet project
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| Ben Bacarisse 2008-01-20, 7:16 pm |
| Vogon <srivatsav.prasanna@gmail.com> writes:
> thank you for the quick response.
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> I apologize for the poorly framed question but you were able to
> decipher the post.
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> Yes, I am 'on a LAN' and behind a firewall.
> The disk quota of my mail server account is small (<20MB).
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> What I would like to do is the following.
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> 1. The client outside views the page using a browser.(say
> http://mail.server/~vogon/filesystem)
> 2. On this page she can view the listing of my ftp server (or WebDAV)
> which runs on my local machine
> 3. When she clicks to download a file, I need to transfer that file
> first onto the mail-server and then transfer it to her machine.
> 4. In order to make it appear as if downloads begin immediately, I
> wish to use a simple buffer in between to read (from the ftp server)
> and write (to the client)
You'd be better off finding direct route to make a link from the
listing page operate as a plain ftp or http transfer. The thing you
probably want is ssh tunneling, but the details will depend on what
systems are running of the various components.
--
Ben.
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| Mark Hobley 2008-01-20, 7:16 pm |
| Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
> You'd be better off finding direct route to make a link from the
> listing page operate as a plain ftp or http transfer.
I agree with Ben here. You could share the files using a web server
(such as thttpd), or install an ftp server (such as vsftpd).
You can install an authenticating web server if necessary.
Regards,
Mark.
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Mark Hobley,
393 Quinton Road West,
Quinton, BIRMINGHAM.
B32 1QE.
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