[Hidden-tech] FTP upload with file naming control

Christoher Eliot cre at empiremaster.com
Mon May 10 19:50:13 EDT 2010


You can easily create a simple web form to perform this single  
purpose, but once you start it is likely that you will want to add  
more functions to it.


On May 10, 2010, at 5:47 PM, R. David Murray wrote:

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> On Mon, 10 May 2010 16:12:37 -0400, Jason Toews <jasontoews3434 at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>> I can imagine a couple ways of resolving this:
>>
>> 1) Throw together a little homegrown utility that serves as a front  
>> end (or
>> substitute) for the existing FTP client. This utility would require  
>> them to
>> enter basic info about the files before uploading, and the files  
>> would be
>> automatically renamed based on that info.
>>
>> 2) Create a web-based interface for the FTP server, which would  
>> serve the
>> same purpose as #1.
>>
>> I've done some searching, but have yet to find an existing  
>> (Windows) FTP
>> utility that includes such features... can someone prove me wrong?  
>> Any other
>> suggestions?
>
> If you are envisioning a form that they fill out to do the upload,  
> then
> I'd say that the web form is the logical way to do this.  This could  
> be
> very quick and easy to throw together, too (a simple CGI script would
> do it).  Feel free to contact me if you want to discuss further how to
> set something up.
>
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