[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Kennedy) writes: > The Situation > I have a CGI application on a platform that I cannot write files to the filesystem. > The platform belongs to a very large maker of networking hardware, let's call them >Sisqo for the sake of the argument. > The restriction on writing files is part of their deployment/infosec restrictions. > Now, the application has to implement a file storage and retrieval system ( amoungst >other things ). This get's very interesting when you can't actually write files. So, >we use Oracle... a file is a record containing some metadata and a BLOB field.
Can you have a "helper" web server running on a different box? Then you can have your Sisqo's webserver just act as a reverse proxy for that box to return the file. --Bill. -- William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wards.net/~bill/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
