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We're working on a system for handling large email attachments - called
eParcel.  If anyone is interested in beta testing in Jan 08 - please let
me know.

Ed.

Oliver Humpage wrote:
> No, not CuteFTP. The other kind of pants.
>
> I keep finding people wanting to attach dozens of megs of files to emails,
> incoming and outgoing. Methinks it's extranet time (hot on the heels of
> Mike's Intranet question!).
>
> So, I'd like to get file transfer working in a web browser. Can't use
> services like mailbigfile.com or have normal http POSTs because our extranet
> would need to have FTP-like folder upload/download capabilities which you
> can't do with POST requests.
>
> Would rather not use webdav because it doesn't work so well in web browsers
> themselves (e.g. Safari won't handle it, and explaining to external users
> that they have to use an http:// address in the Finder will confuse them).
>
> So I'm thinking along the lines of having an FTP client embedded in a web
> page. There's such a thing for Java, but so many people's Java installations
> are flaky as hell (at least on Windows) that I'd rather not. Another option
> is Flash, but I don't do Flash, so not sure how easy it is. Hence this email
> :)
>
> How feasible is it to have a Flash app that's a drag-and-drop style FTP
> client? Also, how feasible is it from a Flash PoV to tunnel the FTP
> connection over SSL (assuming I've got stunnel at the FTP server end)? And
> don't say sftp, that's a *nightmare* to set up for individually chrooted
> user folders, although I could possibly tunnel the FTP connection over SSH
> instead of SSL if Flash is better at that.
>
> Or does anyone have any other ideas on having full FTP capabilities inside a
> web browser, supporting IE, Firefox and Safari?
>
> Any advice appreciated,
>
> Oliver.
>
>
>   

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