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[smokey01]

Due to some interest in our little Vortex application CatDude and I have made it available.

Basically you can configure it to upload files to a server simply by dragging and dropping the file onto the script which sits on the desktop.

In xfce you place the script in a folder and drop the files on the script. It doesn't work if the script is on the desktop.

This file is required. Compile instructions in the script.
ftp://ftp.ncftp.com/ncftp/ncftp-3.2.5-src.tar.bz2

[smokey01]

I notice there have been 17 downloads of the Vortex.

How about a bit of feedback.

Did it work?
Did it meet your requirements?

[01micko]

I'm download #18

Feedback : like the name [ ]

[Sylvander]

Regarding the use of the idea of a "Vortex":
Robert Burns wrote about it in the late 1700's.

Find HERE....
QUOTE
"...thorough-paced selfishness is always the work of time. Indeed, in a
little time, we generally grow so attentive to ourselves and so
regardless of others that I have often in poetic frenzy looked on this
world as one vast ocean, occupied and commoved by innumerable vortices,
each whirling round its centre. These vortices are the children of men.
The great design and, if I may say so, merit of each particular vortex
consists in how widely it can extend the influence of its circle, and
how much floating trash it can suck in and absorb."

I guess the "trash" means "things...
i.e. Money, possessions, power, influence, etc.

[smokey01]

Sylvander you need to take a bit more water with it

[Sylvander]

[smokey01]

Take some water with your scotch.

We called it the Vortex, you know, like a whirlpool. Drop a file on it and it get sucks up into the cloud/your storage.

CatDude has made a portable version of it so it will work from anywhere you place it, like /mnt/home, so you don't have to install it in every distro.

Just drag and drop the script onto the desktop then drag and drop files onto the script, job done.

Cheers

[01micko]

Smokey and CatDude,

I'm pretty sure you could achieve the same result using just curl.

I once wrote a script that took a screen snapshot of a certain website with a cron job, had it cropped (used netpbm tools iirc), then uploaded the resulting image to my website, all done with curl. It was totally automated. I'll dig around for the script, pretty sure it's on my usb hdd.

EDIT: found it

[seaside]

Smokey and CatDude,

I see 01micko found his code just as I was posting this but here's the general form I've used.

[smokey01]

It's also possible to hide the password by compiling the script.

[smokey01]

Catdude has rewritten the vortex script to use cURL instead of ncFTPput.

This removes the requirement to use additional binaries, as most, if not all Puppy's come with cURL included. This of course makes the package considerably smaller.

Neither CatDude or I realised cURL could upload files. Thanks to 01micko and seaside for enlightening us.

Enjoy.

[seaside]

Nicely done with homegrown vegetables .

If anyone is interested in encrypting their log on information, here's some code to insert at the beginning of Vortex.

The first time it's run, it prompts for a username and password which is then encrypted and saved to the file $HOME/upload/.eid.

The next run prompts for a password and then uploads the file.

[smokey01]

Very nice seaside.

Some time ago I discovered a nice little script compiler, see here:
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Shells/shc-18503.shtml

This allows you to compile the script so the passwords are hidden.