Hi, We have the necessity to upload compressed (ZIP) files into our server and UN-zip them at a later time. Since discountASP.net does not provide this functionality, we are looking for a web tool to do it. The web tool will need to be running from our server within discountASP.net but it needs to be dll-less. (discountASP.net does not allow to register dlls in their servers). Anyone has something that will recommend? Help will be appreciated. Pedro R.
search google for .net and zip. i found a few articles and code out there, but cannot recommend any of them because i haven't used any of them myself. you are right about not having any installed controls, but if you find a .net control it will most-likely work for you. Joel Thoms DiscountASP.NET http://www.DiscountASP.NET
i doubt that you can find anything that do not require a server side installation though. Bruce DiscountASP.NET www.DiscountASP.NET
thank you both, Joel and bruce for your input. Question for bruce: Why dont you guys offer a solution to browse files via web and the functionality to unzip files? The ability to unzip files it is something very common for everyone and also something that other providors offer? (It will save us alot of waiting time while uploading files) (I am just trying to understand the implications) txs, Pedro.
This is opens a big can of worms. 1) Potential performance problem. For example, someone can create a scheduled task to zip his site every day and send it to him. According to our test, large sites (with many files and dir) can take up to several hours to zip. When performing zip, you pretty much use up a lot of Disk I/O. The biggest problem is that once we expose the component, there's no control over how much can a user do. 2) Potential security problem. As you well know, hacker can easily pack virus in the zip file. This can potentially be a security issues. Bruce DiscountASP.NET www.DiscountASP.NET
Understood. Thank you very much for the thorough explanation. Makes me feel that you guys really care. Thank you!! Pedro.
