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| On Jan 22, 7:56 pm, Hyuga <hyugaricd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2:13 am, Vogon <srivatsav.prasa...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Somehow, I suspect there is.
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> How would the client be accessing these files? Via the web? FTP?
> SSH? It's not clear. You seem to want to share some files via the
> mail server, but no matter where the actual files are you'd need to be
> running some sort of service on the mail server itself, which it
> doesn't sound like you have permission to do.
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> In general it shouldn't be necessary to write any sort of software for
> sharing files. That's already been done by many people in a variety
> of methods. Any program you write would still have to run on a
> computer behind a firewall and would be subject to the same
> restrictions. This would not be the way to go about learning socket
> programming either (I mean, a simple file sharing program in of itself
> isn't a bad project, but that still has nothing to do with getting
> around a firewall).
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> Like I said, there'd have to be some sort of service running on the
> mail server.
I _do_ have shell access on the mail server. Our webpages are on the
mail server.
In the public_html directory. We can run programs on them. We run cgi,
python and perl
scripts all the time.
I've already said this, but I'll say it again. The client will be
viewing this using a browser. (http)
PS I've already written a file sharing program, a rudimentary ftp
server.
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