|
[x]
Posted via EE Mobile
|
|
| Search, ask, and monitor your questions on the go with EE Mobile. Visit Experts Exchange from your mobile device and never be out of touch again. |
|
|
|
|
|
[x]
The Solution Rating System
|
|
| With so many solutions, how can you tell which solutions are most likely to help you and which ones are not? To provide you with a tool to use, we rate our solutions based on various elements that most accurately determine if a solution is a quality solution. To explain what factors affect the solution rating, here are the elements we take into consideration when formulating our solution rating. - The Grade of the Solution
- The Zone Rank of the Expert Providing the Solution
- The Number of Author and Expert Comments
- The Number of Experts Contributing
- The Feedback of the Community
Your Input Matters
Because of the way the system is set up, the most important variable in this equation is you. As a member of Experts Exchange, you are able to cast your vote on the quality of the solutions in regard to how complete, accurate, helpful and easy to understand each solution is. When you provide your feedback, each rating is adjusted accordingly. So, if you see a solution that has a poor rating that you think is a good solution, let us know by rating it. As you do, the rating will be adjusted and will become more accurate for other members of our site. If you have any suggestions that you would like to make for our rating system, please ask a question in the Suggestions Zone of Community Support. Thank you! |
|
|
|
|
Asked by John500 in Web Servers, Miscellaneous Security, Microsoft IIS Web Server
greetings,
I'm trying to figure out what solution our company should settle with for web file transfers. Our service to our customers is large document distribution. Thus, the customer uploads the desired files to our site and stipulates who should receive the documents. We in-turn fill the request. Given this information, why would I choose FTP over HTTP or vice versa? The web application handles user tokens so mapping users to appropriate disk space/folders is not an issue.
Further more, we just acquired a certificate (GeoTrust) to satisfy handshake requirements with Intuit for credit card transactions. Therefore, the server will have encryption capabilities but I'm not sure if this security can extend to file transfers. In other words, I can see why we need a signed certificate from Intuit for credit card transactions but I don't see how this encryption could benefit our customers for file transfers if we don't require them to have a signed certificate with us. Is there any way to make use of the server certificate for file transfers?
In summary, we already have a secure server for credit card transactions between our server and Intuit... but before we charge the customer for our service, the customer has to upload files for distribution. Is there any way to make use of the secure server with our customers, and if so, is FTP favored over HTTP for any reason (i.e. speed etc).
Thanks
20091021-EE-VQP-81 - Hierarchy / EE_QW_3_20080625
