Re: [openupload-devel] 2 ideas for OpenUpload

[Peter V. <pv...@dy...>]

am 06.05.2009 18:16 schrieb Andy Hester:
> 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.

Yeah! We managed to bring biggies of up to 700MB by means of OpenUpload
to the outside world. I promised to my users: "I will look for a
solution where customers can send big files in."

So, I would really like to have such a feature implemented in OpenUpload!

> 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.

The handling for the customer has to be as simple as possible and the
above proposal sounds quite simple.

Peter