Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:11:25 +0200 From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@catpipe.net> To: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>, isp@freebsd.org, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: forcing FTP-uploaded files to be of certain types only Message-ID: <20060718131124.GB75090@catpipe.net> In-Reply-To: <20060718125547.GB26642@uk.tiscali.com> References: <200607171306.01882.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <20060718125547.GB26642@uk.tiscali.com>
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Brian Candler (B.Candler) writes: > How wedded are you to FTP? If this was a HTTP 'PUT' then a simple CGI could > read in 100 bytes, check it is compressed (e.g. with libmagic), then copy > through the rest of the file. The result from the PUT can be a HTML page > saying "all OK" or "please compress your data first" A reverse FTP proxy (squid might or might not support FTP proxying on "PUT", to be checked) with an external handler. Around 50 lines of Perl ought to do the trick.home | help
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