[TriLUG] Web server Research question

[Tim Jowers]

Or an applet or activex control. :-)
If they aren't changing the files, then maybe you can mount a share at
startup. Or use a mirroring app. Could also give them an "H", or "home"
drive, so each user has their H: mapped to a server folder. Then your
server app could automagically drop the files in there.
I used Ubuntu One a little for file mirroring with a bookkeeper. It worked
fine but only on winblows and ubuntu. In the end SVN was better for what I
needed. Its not as auto-magic but works everywhere and has great history
support. I never went as far as determining if Ubuntu One had an SDK for
apps to drop in files etc.



On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at buadh-brath.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 01:24:26AM -0400, Joseph S. Tate wrote:
> > "Content-disposition: attachment" is what you're looking for, but all
> that
> > does is tells the browser to save a file instead of opening it "inline".
> If
>
> I know.  That's what I am doing, already.
>
>
> > the user's browser preference is just to save to Downloads, that's all it
> > will do. There's no way to override the browser's behavior.
>
> That was the conclusion that I had already reached, from my own
> research.
>
>
> > Instead instruct the user to right click the link and choose "save link
> as"
> > (as labeled in Chrome, variations required for other browsers).
>
> You know that we are talking about "real" people, not computer literate
> people, right?
>
>
> > But I think you have to think hard about WHY you want the user to choose
> > where to save the file. The web is better for having a known "Downloads"
> > folder. Instructions become so much simpler if you just say "download
> this
> > file, and open your downloads folder and double click the thing."
>
> Yes, had a conversation with the client several days ago, and was told
> that they wanted to "automatically" store individual files in particular
> directories in the ( Windows ) file system.
>
> I suggested that perhaps some kind of local application ( PHP-cli, PERL,
> whatever ) retrieve the PDF files from the server and place them in the
> appropriate directories, in a batch process, would be the best solution.
>
>
>
>
> > Joseph
>
>
> Brian
>
>
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