Tool for users to easily send large files
- Thread starter MikeHiow
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Expecting completely random people at other companies to use SFTP to retrieve files sent to them just isn't going to work.
I was thinking more along the lines of something that would allow them to download it via HTTP, but being used by users - it needs to be absolutely fool proof.
I was thinking more along the lines of something that would allow them to download it via HTTP, but being used by users - it needs to be absolutely fool proof.
Perhaps I should have been clearer in my OP - this is intended to be a replacement for attaching large files in emails.
There are plenty of secure means of moving files without using SFTP.
How do you suggest I train the people the files are being sent on how to use it? Also, for it to work, every person the file is sent to would need their own user account etc.
Anyway, the need of security doesn't necessarily mean that it needs to be bullet proof. In this instance, it's simply a case of not being easily accessible/browsable on a public webserver.
A solution that would work would be say a web app where the user can upload a file, choose how long it is valid for and how many times it can be downloaded. This would then give them a very unique link to download the file, enforcing the parameters set by the uploader.
This would mean that the recipient would just need to click a link to download it. The App can monitor whether the download completed for each client and remove access once the download limit has been set.
Of course this is just an example - I could develop something myself, but I was hoping to save time and find something off the shelf.
There are plenty of secure means of moving files without using SFTP.
How do you suggest I train the people the files are being sent on how to use it? Also, for it to work, every person the file is sent to would need their own user account etc.
Anyway, the need of security doesn't necessarily mean that it needs to be bullet proof. In this instance, it's simply a case of not being easily accessible/browsable on a public webserver.
A solution that would work would be say a web app where the user can upload a file, choose how long it is valid for and how many times it can be downloaded. This would then give them a very unique link to download the file, enforcing the parameters set by the uploader.
This would mean that the recipient would just need to click a link to download it. The App can monitor whether the download completed for each client and remove access once the download limit has been set.
Of course this is just an example - I could develop something myself, but I was hoping to save time and find something off the shelf.
That looks like just the ticket. Thank you!
Just as an update, I wrote my own in the end.
After looking at various licensing for the other products, it didn't seem like too bad an idea time/cost wise to just do it myself.
It uses LDAP for authentication and grabs users' contacts from Exchange, which are the two plus points for doing it myself in the end.
After looking at various licensing for the other products, it didn't seem like too bad an idea time/cost wise to just do it myself.
It uses LDAP for authentication and grabs users' contacts from Exchange, which are the two plus points for doing it myself in the end.