On 21 Apr 99, at 14:30, Bob Thrasher wrote:

> I am looking for a program to upload a file from a customers computer to a
> web site. I do not want to use FTP as it would divulge the password for the
> web site. It needs to be simple to use and hopefully run as a script or macro.
>
> The file may be updated and sent to the web site up to 24 times a day by
> different operators. The file will always have the same name and will need
> to be placed on the remote web site at a fixed URL. So their clients can
> download the data at any time.
>
> Again security is a must. I don't want the password loose to all of the
> operators as some might want to run and play in the HTML stuff.
>
> Any ideas are appreciated. I have searched the web but so far have come up
> empty handed.

  I think it would be equally a security risk (although in the other
direction) to have the server reach out and pluck the file from the
machine... (they could be running as a web server...).

  The remaining possibility I can see is for their machine to email the file
to some address whenever it is updated; and have some other process collect
it from there, verify that it looks reasonable, and drop it into the site.
Access to the site is held by the account that receives the mail, not the
customer site.


David G

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