Re: FTP vs MYSQL for storing splash stack loading

2014-10-26 Thread Shawn Blc
Why not have the stores simply use a splash stack, the most recent version is always on the server? All the store needs is port 80 open. Example: go stack URL " http://chum310.byu.edu/InClass/09-RevAndInternet/InternetLecture.rev"; On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Yes! S

Re: FTP vs MYSQL for storing splash stack loading

2014-10-24 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yes! Simply read the stack file as binary and save the result into a blob column. I do this with PDF forms. No need to store your PDF forms on disk! And you can always be certain you are using the most recent version of the forms (or stacks) So your splash stack can actually check the version

Re: Re: FTP vs MYSQL for storing splash stack loading

2014-10-24 Thread Schaubeck
I use Hostgator's hosted FTP server. I'm not a server guru but I'm thinking I would have to have control over the server in order to do that sort of thing. If not, can you provide any knowledge on how I can do that? I suppose I could get my own FTP server up and running but I would like to ex

Re: FTP vs MYSQL for storing splash stack loading

2014-10-24 Thread Simon Smith
You could possibly change the ftp port to something that is not blocked. On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Jim Schaubeck wrote: > Folks, > Our franchisor recently started blocking port 21 in our stores so I can no > longer FTP the most recent stacks to the computers in our stores. > > They will n

FTP vs MYSQL for storing splash stack loading

2014-10-24 Thread Jim Schaubeck
Folks, Our franchisor recently started blocking port 21 in our stores so I can no longer FTP the most recent stacks to the computers in our stores. They will not block other ports so I wanted to know if there was a way to use MYSQL db to download stacks vs FTP Thank you! -- _