On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:32:50AM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote: > On Mon, March 3, 2008 21:00, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:03:32PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> Wouldn't a chrooted ftp server do the same thing? > > > > ftp is a intrinsecally more complex protocol than http (see the problems > > for firewalls with active/passive ftp... > > > > Moreover, the security history of ftp daemons is worse than the security > > history of http daemons (and it is possibly even worse than the security > > history of portmap/nfsd) > > > > Neither ftp not minimalistic http would work in this case. Ftp is to > unsafe and minimal http wouldn't be sufficient for the streaming scripts / > mods. > > I think rsync would be the only viable option. I'll go shopping for some > diskspace...
You may not need much diskspace, just rsync the requested file on-the-fly and remove it when the user is finished with it. I also think that this was the intention of the minimal http or ftp server: send the file and let the http server on the DMZ box serve the file to the 'net. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
