[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 also forgot to mention that these transfer can happen securely as
the protocols suggests.

    You would find it very hard to hack into those protocols that are
secured so that is not a problem.
     Besides if you are showing these systems publicily you letting the
hacker know how much of a
     load you having on your systems which can be an advantage to some
hackers knowing when
     to strike. So I wouldn't be putting such information on critical
web servers out for public hanging.
     I hope those mutli-servers are behind a good redundant firewalls
that you have put up cause other
     wise your shooting yourself in the foot or these servers don't mean
that much to keep up.



--
************************************************************
*** Phillip B. Bruce                                     ***
*** http://pbbruce.home.mindspring.com                   ***
*** pbbruce at mindspring.com                               ***
***                                                      ***
*** "Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than    ***
*** you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you    ***
*** is a maniac." - George Carlin                        ***
************************************************************