On 1/5/2012 9:32 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 05/01/2012 14:09, Karl Denninger wrote: >> So if I want to do anything other than transfer to a Windows machine >> (barf!) I am stuck with either FTP (no encryption at all and subject to >> be picked off via trivial means while the data is in flight) or FTPS >> (which has its own set of issues.) > Does your card support uploading by HTTP(S) POST? You'll need to cook > up a small webapp to process the input, but that shouldn't be any big > deal if you can snoop on the card doing that and extract parameter values. > > Or, more obscurely, does that card support HTTP PUT? Not very many > people realise that uploading data is supported in HTTP, and > consequently it is quite rarely used. For apache, you need to use a > <LIMIT> statement to enable the PUT command, and obviously, you'll need > some sort of access control eg. HTTP Basic Auth so users have to provide > passwords. > > Cheers, > > Matthew No; unfortunately the only "open standards" methods supported are FTP or "Secure" FTP (Ftps)
The proprietary stuff "works" but I want to have a Windows machine powered up all the time to get the transmissions (even though I can have it mount a Samba share and thus write them to the same place on the server in question) like a want a hole in the head. -- Karl _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
