[H-GEN] FTP file robot

[Stephen Brine]

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Just a question. Do any of you know (or remember as the case is) the file 
robot that was available to powerup customers many years ago? It basically 
was a web page that you could put the name of the file you wanted, the URL 
and your login name. It would then (I think) add it to the queue of files 
to download and process it. Then when it was down it would send you an 
email and then you could go and download it from the local FTP server.

Anyway I am wondering if there is the code (probably was a perl/CGI script 
- I don't remember) to do something like this around. I tried looking on 
the web but am not too sure how to phrase it. I am not overly up with web 
coding. It may be reasonably easy to do in PHP or the likes
PHP interface -> adds to a queue -> pipes to ftp client of some description 
-> ftp client returns success -> send email via local postfix server

Any ideas or thoughts?

	Steve B
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Stephen Brine


E-Mail: sbrine at powerup.com.au

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