: David Rothman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: my thinking is that since there isn't (at least no one in multiple
: forums or newsgroups has truly answered the question) a simple
: standalone utility to effectuate simple, secure 2 way file
: transmission in windows (IRC,FTP - not safe. SSH,FTP - need to setup
: a server, so immediate file xfer may not be available (especially when
: you are on a foreign machine)), that that problem should be addressed
: first. if that utility existed, then running it on both ends of a VNC
: connection would solve the immediate VNC file xfer problem as well as
: the generic file xfer problem.
I'd still suggest an http-based (maybe with java) solution,
which would be easily runnable on a web server visible to both
ends of the file transfer. If it were made so that most any
web browser could be used as the download tool, that would solve
many problems, and use of http and https protocols would resolve
security and/or firewalling problems. And it'd be a universal
little utility that could be used from anywhere there's a web
browser.
Most web browsers have a way to upload files by point-and-click.
Unpack-on-download is a bit less standard, but that could be done
several ways also (maybe with java; maybe something else).
This seems like a slam-dunk little application.
Indeed, I already do this, except that I tend to use
tar as an intermediate format, which wouldn't do for
windows users, and the ease-of-use could be improved.
The downside is that there has to be some http/https
server involved, set up ahead of time. But it seems
a reasonably small drawback, given the universality of
access that a web-browser-based approach gives.
And... has anybody tried gnutella or some such?
Probably overkill or firewall-limited; I haven't
looked at the implementation of napster-alikes.
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