[TAG] Jim, HELP needed, 5-minute solution needed by computer industry

[Ben Okopnik]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 01:10:14AM -0400, Aviongoo Sales wrote:
> Jim,

I suspect that you were trying to contact Jim Dennis. A number of years
have passed since then: Jim is no longer associated with LG (although
he's always welcome here), and the Linux Gazette now has The Answer Gang
instead of The Answer Guy. We do, however, still answer Linux-related
(and sometimes other) questions.
  
> I'm looking for a "simple" client server solution.  I just want to upload files
> from my PC to my server under program control.
>  
> The client is Windows XP and the server is Linux.

[...]
  
> So, the challenge is this - come up with a solution (preferably PHP on Linux
> and VB.NET on Windows) that a programmer can implement in five minutes that
> will upload a file from the VB.NET Windows client machine to the PHP Linux
> server machine.  I just want to copy the code and have it work.  I can't
> believe it's that hard!!!!

So... you're looking for a solution to a problem in a Windows
application, written in a proprietary (Windows-only) programming
language. So far, so good.

May I ask why you're asking that question of the _Linux_ Gazette?
It does not seem likely to produce results.

Now, had you asked that question about a Linux application, the answer
would be trivial: e.g., a cron job that will run a shell script to tar
up a bunch of files and then FTP (or rsync, or whatever) the tarball
elsewhere. Case closed, problem solved.

> If you get something to work and document it well, I've got to believe millions
> of folks will be viewing your result.  The various search terms I use in Google
> to try to discover a solution indicate millions are looking!

So, Aviongoo Sales (some parents should be shot. I'm just sayin'.) - since
you are, theoretically, a VB programmer, why don't you study the language a
bit more, come up with a solution, and *sell* it to all those people
clamoring for a solution? Given that there are millions of them, you're
sure to make out quite well.


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