Peter On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 14:40 +0100, Peter Bowyer wrote: > On 08/05/2008, Steve Dobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rather than answer your question, can I suggest an alternative > approach - how about Amazon SQS? It's a reliable message-queue service > 'in the sky' designed for exactly the sort of thing you're describing, > with a web services API and toolkits in various languages. Other > services are probably available. > > Just a thought...
Thanks for the thought but it doesn't work. For a start it is infinitely more expensive than e-mail. E-mail is free, Amazon SQS charges $0.000001 per request. Okay, trivial I grant you but why should I pay anything if there is a cheaper alternative. We are talking market forces here. You're also assuming that the server will have access to the net. Not guaranteed. Brain dead polices are to blame, but I have to live with them. Amazon SQS states no special firewall configurations but it does require an Internet connection. How would this work on a site that doesn't allow any outbound connection to all but a few machines? After long discussions with the client I came to the conclusion that e-mails were the only way to go, because attaching a spreadsheet to an e-mail is the current manual way to transport this data. The only thing I know is that e-mail works. The Excel files are way bigger than they need to be for the data being transmitted. So by using e-mails and can use the current transport system for my data transfer. E-mails work as a universal transport system. If the site really doesn't allow direct Internet connection then some poor loser can save the attachment and walk the data file over to the server on a USB key. I didn't want to put all that in the original posting as this is an OT thread. Any chance you could point me to the documentation now? Steve -- Steve Dobson I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially. -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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