im not sure of any distadvantages besides server loading for going
http but somethign to note too is that with FTP, they can sniff login
info too and then would be able to login (not sure if that's a problem
in your setup or not though).

On 12/15/07, Max L. Eidswick <max_at_eidswick.com> wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Alan Wolfe
> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 3:17 PM
> To: libcurl development
> Subject: Re: General direction, ftp vs html file upload and/or downloads
>
>
> >HTML uploads can be a strain on the server since it has to jump
> through extra hoops (the web server) to get onto the server.
>
> This is a factor, our current web mesh is 20 providers and 100 individual communications sites spread based on server performance.
> The customer loading is distributed based on server response and resource availability. Once a file operation has begun, it remains
> on that node (website/URL instance) until the whole file is uploaded, currently in 1MB chunks. The chunks are reassembled on the
> host and distributed to the appropriate customer storage vault from there.
>
>
> >FTP is nice and light except it's unencrypted so people can sniff
> username/passwords as well as the data you are uploading and
> downloading.
>
> Our data is raw, encrypted, and compressed (or pre-compressed) so that is not a big concern.
>
> Are there any disadvantages to HTTP other than server loading?
>
>
> >If security is important and you want to be able to handle more
> traffic, you might look into SFTP to get the benefits of both security
> and power.
>
> On 12/15/07, Max L. Eidswick <max_at_eidswick.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Our company has used your library in our Version 6 products and now I would like to convert our Version 7 code to use the same
> > library.
> >
> > We can use either ftp or html using your libcurl for uploads and downloads. Can you advise which you recommend? We are breaking
> > all client upload files to 1MB, which we can make smaller or larger if that is a factor. We assemble the source file at the host.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Max
> >
> >
>
>
Received on 2007-12-16