Topic: Server based download manager

[Tim Burgess]

Hi

I would like to get my SME box to act as a download manager. My workstation machine has a heap of downloads cued on it- but when it and I are away from the office - the downloads all stop. The same thing occurs for the other users in the office. My idea is to submit the download url's to a php based system, which would then take care of the download and deposit the completed files in my account.

At the moment I log into the server and use wget, but this wont work for others :-}

Surely someone must have made one of these by now?

[Doug M.]

You might want to check out webshare. Sounds like what you are looking for.

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/mitel/contrib/webshare/

[Tim Burgess]

Ok
Rereading what I wrote I am guilty of not making myself clear enough. I dont want to share files from the e-smith box, I want the e-smith box to download from the web on my behalf.

thanks anyway - a near miss!Doug M. wrote:
>
> You might want to check out webshare. Sounds like what you
> are looking for.
>
> http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/mitel/contrib/webshare/

[Michiel]

> want the e-smith box to download from the web on my behalf.
In that case wget is your friend. See man wget. If you want to do the same thing using ftp, you'll need to download ncftp from rpmfind.net.

Michiel

[NTBlade]

Bah!!
I've been trying to remember the cgi script with a web frontend that I had that sort of worked but I cant!  Sorry.  I'm very interested in installing something like this too.  www.hotscripts.com might be a good starting point.  Let us know if you have any success.  I'll keep looking too.

NTB

[NTBlade]

The cgi is batchgrab but I can't seem to find it anywhere.  I've mailed the author at philprice.net.

[Tim Burgess]

Ok look here

http://www.cit.uws.edu.au/pub/unix/web/cgi/batchgrab-cgi064.tar.bz2

if you install it - how about some feedback

[NTBlade]

Nice one Tim,
I got your email as well, thanks.
I'll try and get some time over the weekend to try it

NTB

[NTBlade]

OK,
Installed the script VERY roughly and added a url to a file to dl and it worked! That's all I've got time for at the mo'

I intend to use an e-smith server at the heart of Shared Broadband / Village Network we're building.  I'm playing with PHP Nuke so it would be fantastic to integrate a download manager into the site along with say, a windows update cache.  Big job but it would be so cool, and would be a much more efficient use of our limited bandwidth.

To be clear.  No one will get paid for any of this.
Has anyone done anything similar?  Any comments / advice?
Sorry for going a bit OT
Thanks
NTB