[Orca-users] Re: Oracle Database

[Phillip B. Bruce]

Blair Zajac wrote:

> "Phillip B. Bruce" wrote:
> > Blair,
> >
> >     Their is one more alternative that you guys need to try.
> >
> >     Look at this site:   http://curl.haxx.se/
> >
> >     This is a technique that Content Management Software such as
> > Vignette and Blue Martini
> >     uses. I think this will be more effective than the others that
> you
> > have listed.
>
> How would this be set up?  From Curl's home page:
>
>         Curl is a tool for transferring files with URL syntax,
>         supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE
>         and LDAP. Curl supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP
>         PUT, FTP uploading, kerberos, HTTP form based upload, proxies,
>
>         cookies, user+password authentication, file transfer resume,
>         http proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.
>
> To get the files from the host running orcallator.se to the host
> running
> Orca could be done in several ways:
>
> 1) Set up FTP or HTTP server on the host running orcallator.se and the
>
>    Orca host would do a GET to the file.  And then the host running
>    orcallator.se would need to delete the file and somehow know that
> the
>    Orca host got the file.
> 2) Have a FTP or HTTP server on the Orca host and the hosts running
>    orcallator.se would push the files to the Orca hosts.
>
> These seem like overkill to simply transfer files around and introduce
> a raft
> of security issues.
>
> Is there something else that Curl does that makes this easy?  How do
> Vignette
> and Blue Martini do file transfers with Curl?
>
> Blair
>

Blair,

      I think that the statement below makes it very clear:


                       Curl is a tool for transferring files with URL
syntax,
        supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE
        and LDAP. Curl supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP
        PUT, FTP uploading, kerberos, HTTP form based upload, proxies,
        cookies, user+password authentication, file transfer resume,
        http proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.


   The curl method used in vignette and blue martini software is what
   allows the webmaster to submitt to the webserver and other users
   as well. If you notice this support common protocols and secured
protocols.
   You could transfer the html content of all the graphics and the
percol's
   files to the webservers and you can specific other ports than the
common
   ports that are used as long they are freed up. This technique is much

   better than NFS'ing those file system across the network.

   With this same philosphy you can do the same technique with orca.

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