Re: Detect a file upload, can I?

From: Kyler Laird (Kyler@news.Lairds.org)
Date: 10/31/02


From: Kyler Laird <Kyler@news.Lairds.org>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:24:07 GMT

tobrian@email.com (Brian) writes:

>A client wants to upload a file to us daily. They
>are not very sophisticated and wanted to just use a scheduled batch
>file in Windows to ftp the file to us. We want to detect the file
>upload and start the application that processes it.

Why the two step process? Isn't there an MS Windows
equivalent of this?
        ssh remoteserver commandtoprocessfile <mydata

Also, have you considered HTTP(S) uploads? We do this
a lot and just build the processing into a simple CGI
(or Zope) script that handles the upload.

--kyler



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