Re: mod perl installed but not running

mike cardeiro wrote:
>> From: André Warnier <[email protected]>
> 
>  >
>> Now, as long as we're there, what happens in your application if two people 
>> upload a file with the same file name ?
>>
> 
> When the upload happens the script makes an entry in a mysql table with 
> the file name, mime type and other info; the table has an autoincremented id 
> field as the primary key.  the script names the uploaded file this id value so every file in the 
> directory is named the id field of their entry in the database so they 
> will all be unigue.  
> 

Very good. And by the same mechanism, you are already avoiding the problem with all the 
silly (and sometimes dangerous) names that people can give to their files.
And I am sure that you also filter these oroginal filenames before writing them to your 
database, right ?  Not that people would be able to upload files with names that contain 
silly characters like <,>,|,;,&,?,spaces, and all these kinds of things.

So if your files in the filesystem only have an unique-id as a name, then you also have a 
download script, and this download script can also show the users a nice page with the 
list of files that they can download, right ? and the links that are shown are each in 
turn a call to your download script, to download the file that they choose, right ?

And another question : how many files maximum can end up being stored in that 
upload/download directory ?