Carl,
Is your server on the same LAN as the clients and does it run NT? If so,
you can map network drives on each workstation and have the server pick up
the files via UNC as long as the server has the necessary permissions to
the shared drives. That way, no user interface is required at all. The
server can pick the files up and the users are none the wiser.
If this isn't the way things are set up, then $Bill has the right idea. It
just would require that the users remember to start things off.
Let me know if you have any questions. I have done something similar before.
Ben
At 05:52 PM 6/19/01 -0700, $Bill Luebkert wrote:
>Carl Campbell wrote:
>>
>> I'm working on an web-based project and I'm facing a challenging situation.
>>
>> I have been asked to come up with a way to transfer a bunch of files,
>> located in a certain folder of our client's workstations, to our FTP
server,
>> so we can process them at the end of the business cycle. The trick here is
>> that, (my employer) wants this action to occur with NO USER INTERVENTION.
>> Or limited to a single click, to be more precise.
>>
>> The client PCs have Perl installed (with libwww) in them (for
administration
>> purposes) and all run WinNT Wks (if is relevant).
>>
>> I am really not asking people to write the code for me. But, I'll be
honest
>> here: I don't have a clue on how to start. is this possible? I've never
>> seeing this sort of thing before: Where a web browser initiates a transfer
>> of files, to a foreign server. Is a client-side PerlScript-embedded HTML
>> page possible?
>
>You can use either LWP (HTTP/FTP? protocol) or Net::FTP (FTP protocol -
>assuming you have a FTP server available on the server) to
>transfer the files.
>
>Peruse the docs for LWP or both and re-ask any specific questions you have.
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