Dynamic uploading and file compare

[Nevermoor]

--I posted the following on the perl forum without realizing there was also a CGI forum--

Hi,

My cgi-bin and public_html folders are, unfortunately, on seperate servers (both unix). I haven't done much perl recently, but have written a script that generates an html file based on various files in my cgi-bin, but I would like to upload it to my public_html folder so that I can use it without having to resort to IFRAMES. I have a few goals:

1: if the script's new file is the same as the old one, don't upload

2: i'd like to fork off a new process to do the uploading, so that the user doesn't have to wait for the upload to complete before continuing to navigate on the cgi-bin server (which contains, among other things, a YaBB forum), but it's been a long time since I've worked with that set of commands.

Any help, suggestions, or places to look would be greatly appreciated.

 

[arcnon]

use Net::FTP or if you have to use ssl Net::SFTP
redirect before you do the ftp stuff... of course then there cant be a message that a error occurred.

checking the file if the file is the same why not upload it also? unless you are going to do alot of FTPing then I would use Net::SSH:erl.