Can we upload stuff?

ramnarayan · Post by **ramnarayan** » 07 Nov 2005, 10:32

Hey,

I was wondering if members can upload/ submit for uploading tutorials, e-books which might be helpful for others? For ex. I have a couple of books Perl for beginners and perl reference which might come in handy for others.

Is this possible?

Brain?

Post by **bad_brain** » 07 Nov 2005, 14:34

it´s not possible at the moment, but it´s planned. the problem is that this would demand a public ftp-access for everybody which would bring security risks, so the place to upload stuff can´t be located on the site. and of course the place would need to be moderated to avoid abuse, just imagine someone would upload infected files.
as you see it´s not that easy, but we´ll think about it and are open to suggestions....

ramnarayan · Post by **ramnarayan** » 08 Nov 2005, 08:03

How about for the time being, we upload it on a file sharing site (filefront.com, rapidshare.de, megaupload.com, etc.) ? Then we can either post the links, or if you want to, you can download the file and then up it on suck-o like you do for the other files?

Post by **bad_brain** » 08 Nov 2005, 08:25

well, sounds pretty good!

the staff could transfer the files then to the site, because for me it´s very important that all downloads work properly, there´s nothing more annoying to a visitor than to find a sweet file, click on the link and get a 404 error...that´s why all files have to be stored on the site...
give me a little time, I have to do my exams this week first, then we get things going...

Post by **CommonStray** » 08 Nov 2005, 19:04

im all ears for that plan

ramnarayan · Post by **ramnarayan** » 15 Nov 2005, 15:25

Ok. Cool! I'll do some research and find a site which will keep the file online for a long time. (Some of them remove the file incase there isn't much traffic).