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sorry maybe a dumb question...
I'm curious if YouTube (for example) uses FTP to upload videos? I was trying to look around the source of the upload page and saw it seemed like they do some kind of plugin detection for Java, Flash, Silverlight, etc... does this mean they use one of those to have the client make an FTP connection and do an upload instead of doing a normal HTML form, HTTP upload?
Thanks for any enlightenment =)
No, they use HTTP for file uploads. FTP is considered non-secure protocol over the internet.
If ever you want to know what is happening between your computer and another one, I highly recommend downloading Wireshark ( http://www.wireshark.org/ ). This will show you exactly what is going on between the browser, any plugins and youtube.com.
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I have recently built a website based on WordPress. I got a free theme from a source in Pakistan.
I have to use this theme because it perfectly serves my purpose. But I want to know that if this theme is quietly establishing a connection with another server and sending my data.
How can I detect that my website is internally sending some codes to the server of developer of theme? Also, I need to know what servers are being communicated with — like, if any image is getting loaded from their server, any code is imported from their server, or anything else is being fetched from their server to run.
Since you have the source code, then you can simply look what this theme does - basically theme should only be HTML and CSS (or mostly it). If there is too much suspicious PHP of Javascript I wouldn't use it.
If you want to see if it connects to some outside sources, run it in your controlled environment and use some network sniffing tool like Wireshark for example.
Generally speaking - if you don't trust the source where you got your theme and you are not good enough in programming to check for malicious code yourselves, don't use it!
I would recommend downloading some of themes provided directly by wordpress.org - those should be safe.
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I'm a beginner in web development, I want to create a website that will have a very large number of file uploads, a single could be up to 100 MB.
I want the upload to be through my website but the upload destination to be on MediaFire (I'm looking for unlimited free storage, using several MediaFire accounts). I still haven't given the MediaFire API a try, but I want to know if with some lines of code I can create a FileUpload on my website but the destination be on MediaFire.
Media Fire Api is a Library Php right ? On google sites, you can add Php File with App engine.
I don't know it's possible but , I think this link can help you.
http://www.sitepoint.com/google-app-engine-php-getting-started/
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I am administering a drupal based website for a small company. We want to start offering our customers video content, streaming preferably.
What we would like to do is have a log-in on the website where after authentication the user could access the videos.
Since I am quite new to do this I don't know
A., what streaming provider to use, lot of people mentioning amazon s3
b., is it possible if using amazon s3 to have my conent be "secured" so only people with neccessary login details access it.
(There is no need for purchasing infrastructure. We hand out the login/password to the customer personally, we just want that if someone copy/pastes the link he or she would not be able to watch it)
I just need some general guidline, googling streaming hosting gives up way to much results and I couldn't find the best solution for this type of question... :(
Thank you for your help!
Check out http://wistia.com/ its one of the best service.
As for showing the video you embed them in a content type and set permission for that type for authenticated users.
This is a basic example. If you needs is more complicate then you can try making a module or use commerce module .
Cheers,
Vishal
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I have a request to do something that I am not sure is possible. The request is to create a website that will backup someones PC, either through the internet or they would download a small software package that will back up their pc and send the backup to a remote server, kind of like Carbonite or Iron Mountain. Does anyone have any idea where I need to start with this or look into how to code for this.
I think you should look into the existing HDD image creators (quick googling gave me XXClone, but you may need something else).
You basically need to
create an image of the entire PC's storage (i.e. all logical disks)
upload the image to the internet area
A relatively small program may perform the tasks 1 and 2 for you, provided that you bundle it with an existing image creator.
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I'm using http://SimpleCDN.com
They have a "Mirrored Bucket" which is an "origin pull".
How it works is I store my conent at mysite.com/abc.jpg and SimpleCDN pulls any requests from mysite.com, caches them in their CDN if not already in the cache, and display my content at simplecdn.com
I really like Origin Pull because I don't have to synch and/or FTP my content to their site, they simply pull it from my site (the origin) if it's not already in their cache.
However, recently, I've been having A LOT of problems with reliability and uptime of their service.
Question: Does anyone else know of a similarly priced CDN that offers "origin pull" CDN service that has great reliably and fast speeds at a reasonable price?
We have been using http://www.istreamlive.net. We tried Simple CDN, but their service is just terrible.