Re: Web download manager

On Sunday 08 August 2004 02:34 am, you wrote:
> On Sunday 08 August 2004 02:07 am, Scott Johnson wrote:
> > Been searching through Sourceforge with no success, hoping someone on
> > the list has a pointer. I'm looking for a package that I can install
> > on an Apache web box that will basically turn the box into a download
> > manager. I may be moving out to the Bush soon, and figured a better
> > way then try to download stuff over 56k is HTTP into a server I leave
> > behind here in Anchorage, queue up some downloads (hopefully via a
> > nice web interface) then burn my downloads to a DVD-R once a week to
> > be mailed to me. Does anyone know of a web app that would act in the
> > capacity of a download manager? Keeping the browser window
> > open/connected wouldn't be very practical - basically I'm looking for
> > something I can input a URL, a user/pass if needbe, and click a simple
> > form button to POST the data to the server, which then downloads the
> > file.
> >
> > Ideas?
>
> hmmmm,
>
> ssh + wget? put into motion with a nice little "add url here and press
> enter" script? perl cgi with wget? looking, looking, looking, uh huh,
>
> here ya go,
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/wget4web/ ? (maybe?)
>
> This sounds fun, I'm gonna write something like this. Keep it simple. Like
> a small web daemon like webfsd (https) and a wget script. Hmm, maybe I'll
> just use the above. lol. The whole wheel analogy again...
>
> Thanks for the idear.
>
It's worth a mention. Go ahead and run a sniffer (ethereal/tcpdump/sniffit;)/ettercap...) with it's nose
on the machine, until some what full trust is evident. The whole idea kinda spooks me, it would be ever so
easy to throw a backdoor into something like

http://freshmeat.net/projects/wget4web/. Heck, now that I think about it, thc's rwwwshell could work wonders
as a backdoor idea in the above. Firewalls, blah ---> http://www.thc.org/papers/fw-backd.htm.

Sleep with one eye open and a finger a tappin...

bests,
eddie

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Received on Sun Aug 8 03:03:31 2004