RE: [Nolug] Download manager

I'm not all that familiar with programming to be writing such a script
myself but I stumbled upon a PERL script that does what I need. It's called
One Time Download http://freshmeat.net/projects/otd/. It pretty much does
what I was looking for.

Thanks!
Chuck

>
> I don't know of a script that already exists, but one wouldn't be hard
> to write. The basic idea would be to keep the files outside of the web
> area (or in your protected directory, I guess), and then have the script
> pipe the file out to your user. The script itself would have to handle
> doing the authentication itself.
>
> Were you planning on keeping the file list and authentication
> information in a database, or use some flat files on the server? The
> other issue (and it is an issue if you use htaccess, too) is that you
> would probably want to SSL encrypt the connection. I realise that it's
> less of a vulnerability because they are one time passwords, but it's
> still a small issue. The last thing I can think of is that you might
> want to do a time limit (like 24 hours or something) instead of just one
> download, because of the variety of things that could happen during that
> download (dropped connections, corrupted downloads, user error, etc.).
>
> Kevin
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