This is a pretty neat idea, but what is wrong with FTP?

This may be a perl site, but I can see only one case where you wouldn't want to use FTP to transfer files: port 21 is unavailable to you.

What advantages does this have over using already established and reasonably secure standards for transferring files?

This also seems a lot like security by obscurity. You are using a port only YOU know, right? Well anyone with a port scanner and a grudge can find out anything. Trust me.

I am not being cruel, but I'm just adding a SysAdmin's point of view. I don't like rolling my own solution when standard solutions work so well.

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J. J. Horner
Linux, Perl, Apache, Stronghold, Unix
jhorner@knoxlug.org http://www.knoxlug.org/

In reply to RE: Cool CGI File Uploading by jjhorner
in thread Cool CGI File Uploading by gaggio

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