feel free to call me a cheapskate, but I am using sendthisfile's service on one of my sites, and honestly, I could take it or leave it. mainly because it doesn't get utilized enough to even justify the small monthly charge.

So what I am looking for is a script and perhaps a little education here about this sort of implementation on a site. I would like for anyone to be able to easily transfer a large CAD file when needed, but preferably without them having to install any s/w to do it with. But from what I gather, that isn’t possible, as the sender must have ftp installed, right?

If you want to see what I am talking about that I really want to recreate [for free] is at my “requestforquotation” page: http://www.columbiaworksinc.com/requestforquotation.html. It simply allows the user to submit a file of any size, and stf has a little settings interface on sendthisfile.com to designate what the receiving email is.

In this case, although this really doesn’t matter, the recipient only receives a 4k email notification that there is a file available for download – for a limited time.

But obviously my question is: is it possible to recreate this code and just run it on a local server at the recipient’s location? Many more questions that are all server related, but for a rainy day.

As always thanks,
Chuck

could you not continue to use send this file

www.enferno.net
Username = Your name
Password = Download

HTML has a FILE INPUT tag. It includes a 'browse' button that lets the user browse their PC for the file that they want to upload to your server.

The trick will be receiving the file. That takes CGI or PHP/JSP etc on the server side to receive the file and store it on your server.

I wrote a PHP script for this a long time ago. I was using it for users to upload their web content... To use something like this, your server, as Don mentions, will have to support PHP.

IR

I made a script similar to this the other day:

File Upload

James

James,

I noticed a 128K max on your upload script. I'm pretty sure his CAD files will go far beyong that. How easy is it to change the max file size in your script?

IR

@Infinite Recursion

I made the script specifically for myself. It is simple to change the max file size. The current value of 131072 bytes can be changed to anything.

By the way, if you do want to use it, just e-mail me and I'll send it to you ASAP.

James

Good deal, James... I figured it was dynamic... just wanted to point it out
as a possible issue.

IR

OK, it's not free but very cheap, user friendly, and only a one time charge for the license. Check out the Dynamic FTP System http://www.dynaftp.com
I hope this helps