Re: [PHP] uploading really big files

On Sat, June 2, 2007 3:01 pm, Alexander Jaeger wrote:
Depends who is doing the uploading...

One also could imagine a write-only account, either in FTP or SCP
setup.

I know I've seen this in FTP, and I don't see any reason SCP
couldn't.


the reason why scp is different is it needs an system account with a
valid shell.
FTP does simply not (but it can :).

I think nobody except the root user should have shell access to a
server,
only for security reasons.

Veering off the original topic quite a bit here, but...

I personally would refuse to work with any webhost who didn't give me
a shell account.

cron jobs, symlinks, large-scale file operations, and other
innumerable minor reasons make non-ssh web development a royal PITA
for me, personally.

So root-only shell is way too restrictive, imho.

-> *Flash *:
There a lot of Tutorials out there, try google or
sourceforge.


Leaves all your non-Flash users out in the cold, which to me is a
non-starter, but might be fine for the OP


There I totaly agree with you! But I require my user to have flash,
same
as i require them to have an graphical browser.

I can imagine where the internet would be with still browsing with
lynx,
but i guess that is a decision every developer has to face.

Ummmmm.

I tend to use Linux as my desktop, and gave up on Flash long ago.

Once I stopped installing it on Windows, I had a MUCH better online
experience, actually.

Websites are faster, no annoying random noises and fewer distracting
"popups" and the CPU and RAM usage finally is reasonable.

So I can't listen to bands on myspace. big deal.

I guess the gap is between introducing people how to handle a ftp or
scp
transfer and installing flash.

The gap is between a tiny percentage of users who CANNOT install
flash, period.

I don't know of any OS that doesn't have a large assortment of FTP
clients available.

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