Using the droplet gateway
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droplet gateway
Like in the Ftp gateway the droplet uses a special combination of ftp parameters to ingest data into the system. In both cases a process on the INTERDUBS servers takes care of the incoming data and makes sure that the INTERDUBS database gets all the information needed for the file.
Manual use
While droplets are OS X only the actual mechanism can be used by any ftp program - as long as the parameters are valid to the system. With the droplet mechanism you can actually upload into a specific folder in INTERDUBS, even if several with the same name exist. The ftp gateway does a 'match by name' and has to take the first one it finds. This is the biggest difference between both mechanisms.
Parameters
The droplet gateway does not use anonymous ftp for uploads. You have to use the following settings:
server: ftp.interdubs.com user: idxftpin password: please get in touch to get the actual password
Password upon request only
The droplet gateway is expecting programs to talk to it. I am happy to share the password with people that understand the implications of this. For instance will the gateway fail silently to the user.
Specification of target folder
All INTERDUBS segments use the same gateway. You specify the target folder in the INTERDUBS name space by creating a folder with a special name in the form:
segment-IDXAPI_FOLDER_AK
segment is your segment name. The company 'Company' would have a login url like http://www.interdubs/r/company and an admin URL like http://www.interdubs/r/company/admin the string 'company' would be its segment name. The segment name is followed by a dash and a 6 digit AK code that can be obtained via the Api. But this is also the code that the web interface uses to navigate through folders.
