Re: [MacPerl] libnet/ftp...

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

On Sat, 11 Apr 1998 09:41:11 -0700,  daff@upward-bound.mills.edu wrote:
>
>I have had great success using the libnet/ftp module to get and store
info...
>
>I would like to use it for a cgi, to send a file back to the browser of
remote user...imagine a sign-up form which returns some text and then
sends the file for the user to save and open in the correct application.
>
>Can I use libnet/ftp?
> 

Sounds like a terrible idea to me. First. there's a chance that your
audience won't he running ftp servers on their machines. If not, there's
no way you can ftp to them anyway.

1 do run an ftp server (Netpresenz) on my machine, but there's no way I'd
ever use such a form. I'm not going to permit anonymous uploads, and l`m
*certainly* not going to type a valid pussword to my machine on a Web
form.

Since they're using a browser. why don't you simply send the file via
http? I don't know how offhand, but there are any number of places I've
been to where you fill out a form and then hit a download button, so it
can't be that hard to do.

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Paul J. Schinder
schinder@pobox.com


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