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 Posted by Philip Hallstrom on 06/19/03 11:16 
> Hey, 
> I dont really know if this is a good idea so need more advise than anything. 
> 
> My cousins in the US and Canada want to send us some home movies (not  
> that I like home movies ##yuck##) but the rest of my family wants to see  
> them. 
> 
> We have a dedicated server which will easily handle a couple of gigs...I  
> was thinking of allowing them to upload the movies to the server and  
> download it here (Sweden) 
> 
> Any suggestions on how to do this? Normal upload form with PHP and  
> increase timeout on server? or some P2P method? I dont think they know  
> much about FTP or i would have given them a directory on the server to  
> upload to. 
 
Can't think of an obvious reason why it isn't a good idea.  It's at least  
as secure as plain FTP.  And if you can put it under HTTPS should be fine  
for what you want to do. 
 
Take a look here for apps.  There's a couple in the FTP section that say  
they do exactly what you want. 
 
http://www.zend.com/apps.php?CID=257 
 
-philip
 
  
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