External file references
Some folks have asked that the system be able to track files that are stored on an FTP site.
How do you want this to work from the user perspective?
When uploading a file (presumably a proxy image or thumbnail) do you want a field to hold the FTP location?
Do you want to be able to click to download that file from the FTP site?
How do you want to deal with permissions on the FTP site?
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2 Posted by renderfox on 03 Jul, 2009 04:38 PM
Yeah! it's really needed thing.
A good way to do it - ftp link fields on two pages:
Support Staff 3 Posted by cameron on 03 Jul, 2009 05:04 PM
You can try this today, just to see how it would work out:
In any message/description field, use a textile link:
"Link to My File":ftp://www.somewhere.com/path/filename.ext
The big problem I see is that there is no security -- and I'm not sure how to address the security issue yet.