Write Files To Another Computer

[VspecGTR3]

is there a way to write folder and files on to someone else scomputer; i do realize this is a HUGE security risk but is there away with comformation from the user?

 

[fishiface]

There are many ways!

Firstly, there are many non-perl solutions such as NFS or samba which would allow you to mount directories so that perl believed it was writing to a local file. This can allow reasonably tight control of security issues.

Within perl, try Net::FTP which would allow you to send files to ftp servers on the remote hosts. You would need to hard-code the password which is not wonderful.

You should also look at XMLRPC which allows you to build incredibly simple client-server apps with a certain amount of security.

The grand-daddy, though, is PlRPC which also lets you build client-server apps but allows extremely tight security and makes cryptography very simple. I found the manual pages less than helpful as they start by showing off the (impressive) capabilities of the modules rather than guiding you through from simple examples. Persevere - it's worth it.

Yours,