to Pieter's software index	UPLOAD   0.60
	© 2002 Utrecht School of the Arts - Pieter Suurmond

	UPLOAD  is a simple CGI program that allows a group of people to upload files to a shared directory on a webserver. The program also acts as a webserver, which enables downloading these files again. UPLOAD  is thus some sort of "webFTP". It offers a webinterface to manage user accounts, individual passwords, e-mail-addresses and access-permissions, to the administrative user(s) of UPLOAD  only. It offers a webinterface to the regular UPLOAD-user to change his or her own password and e-mail address.  He or she can upload any kind of file via the webinterface. At server-side, only a webserver - Apache for example - and a regular C compiler - gcc for instance - are required. No additional modules, libraries, etc. are necessary at server-side. At client-side, no Java, JavaScript, cookies or plugins are required. Only some graphical image-buttons are used. Although UPLOAD outputs some JavaScript, it never depends on it. Furthermore, UPLOAD bakes its' own cookies, so it's entirely independant on the client's browser-settings.
	The CGI program outputs valid HTML 4.01 as recommended by the W3 Consortium.

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	The sourcecode-comments are in English, the application itself, however, displays some messages in Dutch. Translating to another language (some character strings in the source) may take an hour or so (sorry).
			Files can be deleted, renamed and submitted to the server. There is an option to translate TAB-separated files to HTML. Regular uploaders do not see the admin-button that is now shown here, only superusers do.

Source code

	The latest version of UPLOAD is freely available at  http://www.hku.nl/~pieter/SOFT/CGI/UPLOAD for download:
		../UPLOAD0.60.tar.gz	126 133 bytes	Complete sourcecode and documentation of the UPLOAD  software, version 0.60, including CGI_TOOLS,  all tarred and gzipped together in one file.
	After unpacking this .tar.gz-file, your source directory should look something like this: (Below, files can also be viewed and downloaded individually.)
		CGI_TOOLS/	subdirectory	Routines for most common CGI-jobs, from URL encoding to state-maintainance with cookies, navigation, authorisation, administration, etc.
		html/	subdirectory	Contains this very HTML file and some images.
		makefile	9 189 bytes	Compilation and installation instructions for UNIX (IRIX, LINUX, OSX, etc.).
		nph-UPLOAD.cgi.c	35 856 bytes	Contains main() and the webinterfaces for uploading, serving (i.e. downloading) and indexing.
		UPLOAD.var.c	502 bytes	Some application constants, generated by makefile.
	The makefile describes how to install and secure the software. The UPLOAD project and its' makefile may serve as a small example showing how to use CGI_TOOLS.

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