From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kv4Bc-0008Oe-Ur for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:05:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37EE7E01C1; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:05:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.155]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D080FE01C1 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:05:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so3363957fga.14 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:05:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:in-reply-to:x-homepage:x-operating-system :user-agent; bh=X6lRxnyK+TJW/cKs4fG0WiNA9ibh0sMgAFWS4Q2WPXY=; b=rOUy9ArvNKaJNUXnE7mAV7dYa0vULuWonA40OVselS/RX+eTJ7a7DwQ4Uc9WkxpTe6 +EFhYFfa1UQrlQtSFWjI7EJsf9SM+O+GfI9/O6VRe11VKYPLD0LA04fUCcUPqjv8iHFW Kr9jWY5wUzPeAJFJLNZIwq/fZWEDNglM9n0UQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :x-homepage:x-operating-system:user-agent; b=t0paIjnDQAgzbX34Glx1iS3xGxEDm5YJRQXMrUpCjfCkc2wYSiw/T5DVCBLza2IAjq ZCvrWMVuCN+b04R07YfcHL8ukzjTqOJGbAeqStgptcFMR5uEgZZhrzDEBSRmuTRJucrr qIrHzbx4lDNfUT0I5uTkchTb3hgxaNKwZ5VWA= Received: by 10.86.66.19 with SMTP id o19mr5273233fga.18.1225260341144; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:05:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (host152-14-dynamic.25-79-r.retail.telecomitalia.it [79.25.14.152]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm3648685fge.8.2008.10.28.23.05.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:05:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:03:55 +0100 From: Momesso Andrea To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative Message-ID: <20081029060355.GA4806@revolver> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20081028173809.GD29176@revolver> <200810282038.33324.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20081028201037.GA8366@revolver> <200810282315.39609.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200810282315.39609.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Homepage: http://topperh.blogspot.com X-Operating-System: Gentoo Linux User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: c97599a5-c1ab-43cd-9ed4-f70d10e4e4c1 X-Archives-Hash: cf7d77603938aea137337ff3e5808d58 --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:15:39PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 28 October 2008 22:10:37 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > > Why not just have them view the ftp site in the browser? > > > > > > User's aren't stupid and can cope with stuff - they will see a hierar= chy > > > of folders just like what they see in My Computer and might be asked = for > > > a username and password - just like in gmail. > > > > > > What's the problem with such an arrangement? > > > > Hmmm... And how do they upload? >=20 > Ahem.=20 >=20 > Allow me to introduce you to my good friend drag and his charming wife dr= op. Nice to meet them :P >=20 > Browsers ARE ftp clients and know about ftp put and get just like they kn= ow=20 > about http GET, PUT and POST. Caveat: Firefox needs a plugin and those=20 > wonderful chaps who write IE7 helpfully removed this feature. Konqueror a= nd=20 > Nautilus JustDoIt(tm). >=20 Most of the users I'm serving don't even know about about Konqueror and Nautilus... And if they have ever installed a firefox plugin, that is the one called "Bring The Porn". By they way I cannot cut away such a big part of the audience just because they don't have a compliant browser. > Your other option is that insanely convoluted method that phpBB forums us= e for=20 > file uploads. Aunt Tillie has never yet been observed to understand what = the=20 > forum wants her to do with that function. >=20 Egroupware has something similar to what I need, the just call it FileManager: "Managing files stored in the (VFS)? (virtual file system) based on files, sql-db or webdav." It gives the ability to upload files and stores in the database a lot of useful metadata (date of upload, name of uploader, short description, wether it is updated or not etc...). --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkH/MsACgkQTusdC+HYtiIXfQCfcbpj/VfyFE2+ieWrTyWhnz6D pQQAoKUb4gGtFmtdhAu2CMZeVOw0IS1u =2q5M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z--