FTP Sever with Expiring Links

[Roger H. Veteran]

Ok, so here's the gist. We send do some big reports sometimes (sometimes 50MB PDFs) for towns, banks, etc. For some places they can't get emails that big so the boss would like something like a FTP server but with expiring links. Basically we stuff the file there and after say 24hrs it's deleted. I started using dropbox myself to get these things out to them and just include a link in the email. Since it doesn't really have the expiring part and it's offsite making uploading files take a while sometimes depending on how many people are doing the same it's best if doing it local (1Gbps network :D).

So anyways, Windows 2003 R2 domain here running IIS already. Just wanted to see if there's anything with that type of functionality. I was thinking of just a general landing page to log in but he wants it just a straight link that expires. Anyone know of any software or way to implement that?

[+BudMan MVC]

Do you want the link to say something like its expired if they hit it? But lets say you send them a link to

ftp://yourside.tld/folder/report-date.pdf

You could run a script on the server to delete files over 24 hours old, which would make the link invalid once the file has been deleted.

[TurboTuna]

You could script something yourself depending on what languages you know...PHP + mysql for example.

Have a page where you link the file to an id, set an expiration time.

Another page you hand out - Link.php?id=52 for example, have the page check to see if its expired, if not, download file, otherwise say its expired.

[Roger H. Veteran]

  On 13/07/2011 at 13:34, BudMan said:

Do you want the link to say something like its expired if they hit it? But lets say you send them a link to

ftp://yourside.tld/folder/report-date.pdf

You could run a script on the server to delete files over 24 hours old, which would make the link invalid once the file has been deleted.

Yeah, something like that. I know 0 languages of-course so that's why I was hoping to find a simple software to do it. It should be easy to upload also because of the non-techy people here. For me I was just thinking run a normal FTP server or even IIS FTP portion and then manually delete the files but yeah that'll be a pain I guess. Gotta think big here, i'm used to small places before :D.

https://lfa.tnc.org/courier/1000@/mail_user_login.html?

Even something like what these guys are using would be cool, but i just saw this:

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Pricing for the cloud appliance starts at $4,000 per year. Additional information about Accellion managed file transfer solutions can be found at www.accellion.com.

So yeah, not gonna work out there. :D