Hi
hope this is in the right forum...
I'm tasked with building a website that performs the following basic functions:
1. Allow the user to create/modify some data in a file on the filesystem.
2. At the user's request, perform some action (transparent to the user), that may be a shell script, standalone
java prog, or a shell script that executes a java program, on that file.
3. Immediately following, email the result based on parameters supplied by the user at request time.
Can anyone kind of point me in the right direction of how to do this architectually? Particularly - how should i store these files so that they are not available via http on the site, but so that the web user cannot have access tot eh rest of the system. And, what is the best way to have a web app kick off a standalone program, and be able to respond to it's result?
thanks
[ February 28, 2005: Message edited by: Dudley Dawson ]