alternatives to FTP servers

[snareshiver]

Hi,

I want to upload my product feed in sites like pricerunner, shopping.com. ciao.....

Few of the sites are asking either a url or ftp to access my feed. I don't want to give my url as it may lead to hacking.

Is there any alternative to upload my feed without giving the url / ftp.

Thanks

 

[VinceSamios]

Can they do SFTP?

Also its not difficult to write a script which only accepts access from the requesting servers (ie. shopping.com)

 

[snareshiver]

if i give my url to generate feeds on a daily basis to them, will it give any harm?

 

[gilchrist]

Hi


Bittorrent is very reliable for transferring files and just continues after any interruption.

Gil

 

[David198]

Hi,

I want to upload my product feed in sites like pricerunner, shopping.com. ciao.....

Few of the sites are asking either a url or ftp to access my feed. I don't want to give my url as it may lead to hacking.

Is there any alternative to upload my feed without giving the url / ftp.

Thanks

You can create a new ftp account and assign it a new folder. This will be safe.

 

[terryuk]

I just got a hard drive which you can connect to anywhere, via ftp/IP.

Not sure if you need it.. but handy

 

[Posilan]

Hi,

I want to upload my product feed in sites like pricerunner, shopping.com. ciao.....

Few of the sites are asking either a url or ftp to access my feed. I don't want to give my url as it may lead to hacking.

Is there any alternative to upload my feed without giving the url / ftp.

Thanks

The best way would be to use a url, but restrict access to just the sites that need it.

Most reputable sites that use the feeds will publish a list of hosts/ip addresses that will be requesting the data so (assuming you have linux hosting) just set up a subfolder or subdomain and make a .htaccess file with the following in it:

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
allow from yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
allow from zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz

Obviously replacing the letters with the correct IP addresses of the incomming connections you want to allow - if anyone else trys to access it, they wont be able to.

Steve