Re: [openupload-devel] 2 ideas for OpenUpload
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From: Alessandro B. <ts...@br...> - 2009-05-06 17:47:28
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Andy, both of this requests are in the "Feature Requests". Andy Hester ha scritto: > I have two ideas that I would like the community's input on. These > ideas are coming from a corporate/enterprise type scenario and may not > be applicable to everyone. The first one is pretty straight forward and > should be fairly simple for a developer. The second one is a little > more complex. > > 1. I would like to be able to scan files for viruses after upload. > Normally, you would scan the stream during upload, but I don't object to > writing the file to disk and then scanning it. I am using the site on a > linux server and I am looking at php-clamavlib. I am sure that we would > want this to be a plugin form. I might be able to hack through this > with some help. > > http://www.howtoforge.com/scan_viruses_with_php_clamavlib > The antivirus is pretty straight forward (very similar to the compress plugin, imho). And am not really sure it needs to use that lib I'm neutral (+0) on this one. > 2. The second item is related to the way the system works. OpenUpload > is great for our organization for transferring file from inside the > company to vendors, customers, etc. For transferring large files from > customers, vendors, etc inbound to our internal users, not so much. > > I realize that the ultimate correct solution would be for the vendors, > customers, etc to get their own OpenUpload server and provide us a place > to download their files. However, the sad truth is that many > organizations are not going to do this and I will still have users that > need to get the files from outside. > > If I were going to design a tool that works for outside in transfers, I > think it should work like this: > > 1. Internal user with an account logs in to the OpenUpload site. > 2. Internal user fills out form very similar to existing form and sends > it to vendor, customer, whoever > 3. External user receives email with one time random alphanumericly > generated url and included password from internal user. > 4. External user clicks link and goes to OpenUpload site and is allowed > to upload file(s). > 5. Internal user receives email with link to download file and password. > > It seems like all of the peices are there, they just need to be > re-arranged. I would be interested to know what others think about this > both the need and the solution. I think it would make a great addition > as an additional mode that the site can operate in. Perhaps it would > require a separate site to live in, but I'm not sure that would be such > a bad thing. > > Like: > inbound.transfers.com > outbound.trnasfer.com > each operating in a different mode. > This would need some coding and a new db table for the tokens, but it's defenately a must have option. +1 on this one. Don't think that the different "domains" is needed, but it could be an option (you'd probably need to maintain the 2 different sites though, or use the modrewrite ...) I plan on implementing this in next version (0.5 which I plan should have some major structure changes, but minimal to the user/admin), but if you provide patches I'll be pleases to push them (we can still do a 0.4.1 version :) ) Alessandro |