Re: [openupload-devel] 2 ideas for OpenUpload

[Alessandro B. <ts...@br...>]

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