Client upload of files via http

[Leonard Isham]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:01:53 +1000 (EST), Michael Mansour
<micoots at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  --- Alexander Dalloz
> <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> > Am Fr, den 29.10.2004 schrieb Eucke Warren um 0:03:
> >
> > > I have a potential customer who is looking to be
> > able to upload and download
> > > files via his and his clients browsers.  Is this
> > something that lftp is
> > > suited for....anything else that anyone is using
> > that is secure and user
> > > friendly?  Thoughts, risks, real world war/horror
> > thoughts?  I am assuming
> > > that most of the use will be via IE....
> > >
> > > -Eucke
> >
> > Did you already have a look at WebDAV?
> >
> > FTP is insecure and a risk as data and especially
> > the login data is
> > transfered plainly. As you asked about capability of
> > the IE, yes it can
> > upload files to an FTP server.
> >
> > Alexander
> 
> Have you checked out the program cURL?
> 
> http://curl.haxx.se/
> 
> By default the package is installed on FC
> (curl-7.11.1-1 on FC2 and curl-7.10.6-7 on FC1).
> 
> This will do pretty much everything you want and
> supports secure transfers.
> 
> Michael.
> 
I think the goal might be something a little more user friendly.  I
have not tried this, but it might fit your needs.

WebFileSystem
http://sourceforge.net/projects/webfilesystem/

-- 
Leonard Isham, CISSP 
Ostendo non ostento.