[unisog] uploading folders to with web applications

[Ali, Saqib]

Russell,

Have you looked into enabling WebDAV on the server? Once WebDAV is
enable the client user can map the folder using I.E on Windows on
natively on MacOSX, or use a 3rd party software.


Another option is the use client side only Java applet that allows
drag and drop upload of multiple files. www.myfabrik.com uses such a
applet. you can try it out by signing up for a free account.

saqib
http://security-basics.blogspot.com/


On Nov 7, 2007 3:23 PM, Russell Fulton <r.fulton at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> We have just had a meeting with some folk from our medical school about
> transferring medical images.  In the past these transfers were not time
> critical and they simply couriered CDs around the world.  That is about
> to change and they now need much faster transfers.
>
> Their problem is that they are getting these images from hospitals all
> over Asia and the Pacific.  The hospital systems are typically very
> tightly tied down and the only thing we can count on is a web browser
> (in particular we can't count on having and archiver software, e.g.
> zip).  They really like our web drop box <webdropoff.auckland.ac.nz> but
> for the fact that it can only handle one file at a time serverely limits
> it usefulness for this application.  Typically MRI scanners produce
> hundreds of images in a directory hierarchy and they need to preserve
> this structure.  In normal situation we would say that the sender should
> zip the file before uploading but in some cases this will not be easy.
> If the systems are that tied down I would expect (hope?) Java and
> JavaScript to also be disabled.
>
> We are looking at extending/customising our web drop box for their use
> and need a way of uploading a folder hierarchy rather than a single file
> through a web application in a simple straight forward manner.
>
> Our development folk tell us that they don't know of any way of doing
> this without some form of additional software on the remote system.
> Does anyone out there have any solutions or even ideas that we can pursue?
>
> At the moment our fall back position is that the remote system will have
> to have access to winzip but if we can avoid that then it would be a
> Good Thing (tm).
>
> Russell
>
>
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