Posted by Philip Hallstrom on 11/26/03 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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