[Commons-l] Different upload systems

[Yann Forget]

Hello,

Platonides wrote:
> I was thinking on a FTP server where you log in with your wiki
> credentials and get to a private temporary folder. You can view pending
> files, delete, rename, append and create new ones (you can't read them
> though, to avoid being used as a sharing service).
> You are given a quota so you could upload a few large files or many
> small ones. Files get deleted after X time untouched.
> When you go to the page name it would have on the wiki there's a message
> reminding you of a pending upload an inviting you to finish it, where
> you get the normal upload fields. After transferring, the file gets
> public and you are returned the file size quota.
> Having a specific protocol for uploads also allow to store them directly
> on the storage nodes, instead of writing them via nfs from the apaches.

Internet Archive has such a system, so it might worth asking them rather
than reinventing hot water.

http://www.archive.org/services/contrib-submit.php (for simpler cases),
or http://www.us.archive.org/contrib_submit.php (for more complex ones)

(Adding files to an existing item might make this a "more complex" case,
requiring use of replacing=1 or update_mode=1.)

Information on use of http://www.archive.org/services/contrib-submit.php
is available at: http://www.archive.org/help/contrib-advanced.php

and information on use of http://www.us.archive.org/contrib_submit.php
is available at: http://www.us.archive.org/contrib_submit.php?help=1

Yann
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