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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 04 October 2011 07:50:31 Robert Collins wrote:
> B: Have the librarian do it: include the object to link to as a form
> header, have the upload service run in the same domain as the
> appserver (so auth cookies are available) and make an XMLRPC call to
> the appserver before returning the HTTP status code to the user. In
> fact the XMLRPC call to the appservers could return the next_url to
> redirect to, giving a seamless experience.
[snip] 
> my recommendation is B.

Graham, the poppy server may give you some inspiration.  It declares FTP and 
SFTP services in a twistd server.

I can't help thinking we should unify all these uploads somehow, but Soyuz 
uploads have concurrency race conditions that need fixing first.