On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Angelo Chen <angelochen960@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there a module that I can run under Apache HTTP server that can do file > sharing? the purpose is, instead of using ftp, users in the Intranet can > just use browser to upload/download files, might have some access controls > like, password protected, public and others. any idea such module exists? > Thanks. > > Angelo Well, there's a DAV module, which is an extension to the HTTP protocol that has additional methods (to GET, POST, HEAD, etc.) for sharing files...but I believe that requires a special client to use the additional methods. If you know a server-side scripting language, such as PHP, it would be pretty easy to write a web app to do what you're looking for, and I'm sure there are several that exist already (though I don't know of any specifically). However, I'm not clear why FTP isn't an option? Most web-browsers have at least limited support for FTP if that's the concern. Internet Explorer has (surprisingly) pretty thorough support for it, including simple auth, upload and download. Firefox, as I recall, has support for browsing and downloading, but I don't think built-in support for uploading. Extensions are available for this, too, though, notably FireFTP. Then again, there are a lot of third party modules out there; there may very well be one that does just what you want. Hope some of that helps, -Brian -- Feel free to contact me using PGP Encryption: Key Id: 0x3AA70848 Available from: http://pgp.mit.edu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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