Situation:
I have to connect with my Windows 2000 server using VS.NET 2003 and C# and
connect to a remote Linux server at another company's office and query their
XML file. Their file may be updated every hour or so. How can I do this
easily? I would like to use secure communication even encryption if
possible. I would query and insert locally only the newest records found in
that XML file to an xml or MS access db. 7 2634
SSH. Otherwise SSL over HTTP, assuming the Leenucks box has Apache and a
certificate.
SSH is just another protocol over TCP, so I suppose you could write your own
implementation, or get a third party component that wraps it for you. You
could also "automate" it with something like putty (which is an SSH client
that runs on Win32).
--
Klaus H. Probst, MVP http://www.vbbox.com/
"Dan V." <da**@yah.com> wrote in message
news:#4**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... Situation: I have to connect with my Windows 2000 server using VS.NET 2003 and C# and connect to a remote Linux server at another company's office and query
their XML file. Their file may be updated every hour or so. How can I do this easily? I would like to use secure communication even encryption if possible. I would query and insert locally only the newest records found
in that XML file to an xml or MS access db.
What is all involved?
Do I need a shared NTFS partition on their Linux box or a web service? What
kind of security does this support? What is putty I have never heard of
this?
thanks,
Dan
"Klaus H. Probst" <us*******@vbbox.com> wrote in message
news:et**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... SSH. Otherwise SSL over HTTP, assuming the Leenucks box has Apache and a certificate.
SSH is just another protocol over TCP, so I suppose you could write your
own implementation, or get a third party component that wraps it for you. You could also "automate" it with something like putty (which is an SSH client that runs on Win32).
-- Klaus H. Probst, MVP http://www.vbbox.com/
"Dan V." <da**@yah.com> wrote in message news:#4**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... Situation: I have to connect with my Windows 2000 server using VS.NET 2003 and C#
and connect to a remote Linux server at another company's office and query their XML file. Their file may be updated every hour or so. How can I do
this easily? I would like to use secure communication even encryption if possible. I would query and insert locally only the newest records
found in that XML file to an xml or MS access db.
I am also interested in a .NET only solution. I would love having the two
or three easiest solutions so I can pick one that I think I could do.
"Klaus H. Probst" <us*******@vbbox.com> wrote in message
news:et**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... SSH. Otherwise SSL over HTTP, assuming the Leenucks box has Apache and a certificate.
SSH is just another protocol over TCP, so I suppose you could write your
own implementation, or get a third party component that wraps it for you. You could also "automate" it with something like putty (which is an SSH client that runs on Win32).
-- Klaus H. Probst, MVP http://www.vbbox.com/
"Dan V." <da**@yah.com> wrote in message news:#4**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... Situation: I have to connect with my Windows 2000 server using VS.NET 2003 and C#
and connect to a remote Linux server at another company's office and query their XML file. Their file may be updated every hour or so. How can I do
this easily? I would like to use secure communication even encryption if possible. I would query and insert locally only the newest records
found in that XML file to an xml or MS access db.
You can't have an NTFS "share" on a Linux box. No partitions. You can have
an SMB share though. However, if you use SSH then you don't need to muck
with shares, just have the Leenucks box run sshd with the correct
permissions and all that.
Putty is an SSH client that runs on Windows: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
But ultimately, yeah, you can use a share. It's just that it's very tricky
to set up Samba to serve as a file server for Windows clients. It's far
simpler to set up the other way around (Linux reading Windows shares).
But there's a whole bunch of options, really. FTP/SFTP, SSH, shares, HTTP[S]
and so on.
--
Klaus H. Probst, MVP http://www.vbbox.com/
"Dan V." <da**@yah.com> wrote in message
news:eS*************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... What is all involved? Do I need a shared NTFS partition on their Linux box or a web service?
What kind of security does this support? What is putty I have never heard of this?
thanks, Dan
"Klaus H. Probst" <us*******@vbbox.com> wrote in message news:et**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... SSH. Otherwise SSL over HTTP, assuming the Leenucks box has Apache and a certificate.
SSH is just another protocol over TCP, so I suppose you could write your own implementation, or get a third party component that wraps it for you.
You could also "automate" it with something like putty (which is an SSH
client that runs on Win32).
-- Klaus H. Probst, MVP http://www.vbbox.com/
"Dan V." <da**@yah.com> wrote in message news:#4**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... Situation: I have to connect with my Windows 2000 server using VS.NET 2003 and C# and connect to a remote Linux server at another company's office and query
their XML file. Their file may be updated every hour or so. How can I do this easily? I would like to use secure communication even encryption if possible. I would query and insert locally only the newest records found in that XML file to an xml or MS access db.
Thanks for the options, I really appreciate it!
Since we have to connect to Linux, Mac and Windows PC's remotely and
probably just copy the XML file and query it locally (as an easier
solution), I am trying to decide which is easier of the two solutions to
maintain and setup at 60 sites. These remote sites, do not usually have
anyone technical on site.
1) Secure FTP. Either SSH or something. Ideally we install the same
version of the same program on all 3 platforms on everyone's PC. We now
have to find a way to send an xml file every day or so to us. Can SSH auto
send files or run a batch file on a schedule to our ftp site? Is it true,
that SSH will use a different port that may be blocked by firewalls and SSL
over HTTP is better as 'everyone' has port 80 open? But the advantage is
that everyone is guaranteed to have a high level of encryption once
installed - I can choose the level of encryption, so it is more secure it
sounds like?
2) SSL over HTTP. I would have to do a one time buy and setup a certificate
on our server - that is OK with me. The way I understand it is the client
does not have to do anything except go to our https site and then the
encryption starts... But this is dependent on the browser's encryption
level. Clients that do not have high enough encryption will not have any
correct - or does it stop them from accessing the site? And may think they
are protected and this would be bad. Also, how could I automate on all
platforms a file to be sent to us? It would be nice to be able to have the
client get authenticated on our ASP.NET https site and then they click a
button to upload the xml file (and have the option to do this upload
automatically from now on); but does that require web/java script
programming for on the client for every platform - or can the programming be
done from our ASP.NET server and I pull the data? SSL requires cookies,
does it not, so is this is another point of potential failure?
Thanks again,
"Klaus H. Probst" <us*******@vbbox.com> wrote in message
news:%2***************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... You can't have an NTFS "share" on a Linux box. No partitions. You can have an SMB share though. However, if you use SSH then you don't need to muck with shares, just have the Leenucks box run sshd with the correct permissions and all that.
Putty is an SSH client that runs on Windows: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
But ultimately, yeah, you can use a share. It's just that it's very tricky to set up Samba to serve as a file server for Windows clients. It's far simpler to set up the other way around (Linux reading Windows shares).
But there's a whole bunch of options, really. FTP/SFTP, SSH, shares,
HTTP[S] and so on.
-- Klaus H. Probst, MVP http://www.vbbox.com/
"Dan V." <da**@yah.com> wrote in message news:eS*************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... What is all involved? Do I need a shared NTFS partition on their Linux box or a web service? What kind of security does this support? What is putty I have never heard of this?
thanks, Dan
"Klaus H. Probst" <us*******@vbbox.com> wrote in message news:et**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... SSH. Otherwise SSL over HTTP, assuming the Leenucks box has Apache and
a certificate.
SSH is just another protocol over TCP, so I suppose you could write
your own implementation, or get a third party component that wraps it for you. You could also "automate" it with something like putty (which is an SSH client that runs on Win32).
-- Klaus H. Probst, MVP http://www.vbbox.com/
"Dan V." <da**@yah.com> wrote in message news:#4**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... > Situation: > I have to connect with my Windows 2000 server using VS.NET 2003 and
C# and > connect to a remote Linux server at another company's office and
query their > XML file. Their file may be updated every hour or so. How can I do this > easily? I would like to use secure communication even encryption if > possible. I would query and insert locally only the newest records found in > that XML file to an xml or MS access db. > >
I'd recommend HTTPS then. It's fairly simple to set up with IIS, but yes,
you'll need a certificate. That will run you about $400, depending who you
get it from. But now we're talking about clients uploading files, not your
code going out to another machine and reading the file, correct?
The encryption strength depends on the browser. Normally for people running
fairly modern OS you can get up to 128 bits. Mozilla variants and IE support
this. But you can set up IIS to fall back to a lower bit strength if the
client does not support 128 (usually 56 bits or so).
The code would reside on your Windows server; all the clients need is a
browser. It's fairly easy to create the upload functionality using ASP.NET.
There are a lot of examples out there that show how to do this.
SSL does not require cookies, but it supports them.
--
Klaus H. Probst, MVP http://www.vbbox.com/
"Dan V." <da**@yah.com> wrote in message
news:en*************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... Thanks for the options, I really appreciate it!
Since we have to connect to Linux, Mac and Windows PC's remotely and probably just copy the XML file and query it locally (as an easier solution), I am trying to decide which is easier of the two solutions to maintain and setup at 60 sites. These remote sites, do not usually have anyone technical on site. 1) Secure FTP. Either SSH or something. Ideally we install the same version of the same program on all 3 platforms on everyone's PC. We now have to find a way to send an xml file every day or so to us. Can SSH
auto send files or run a batch file on a schedule to our ftp site? Is it true, that SSH will use a different port that may be blocked by firewalls and
SSL over HTTP is better as 'everyone' has port 80 open? But the advantage is that everyone is guaranteed to have a high level of encryption once installed - I can choose the level of encryption, so it is more secure it sounds like? 2) SSL over HTTP. I would have to do a one time buy and setup a
certificate on our server - that is OK with me. The way I understand it is the client does not have to do anything except go to our https site and then the encryption starts... But this is dependent on the browser's encryption level. Clients that do not have high enough encryption will not have any correct - or does it stop them from accessing the site? And may think they are protected and this would be bad. Also, how could I automate on all platforms a file to be sent to us? It would be nice to be able to have
the client get authenticated on our ASP.NET https site and then they click a button to upload the xml file (and have the option to do this upload automatically from now on); but does that require web/java script programming for on the client for every platform - or can the programming
be done from our ASP.NET server and I pull the data? SSL requires cookies, does it not, so is this is another point of potential failure? Thanks again,
"Klaus H. Probst" <us*******@vbbox.com> wrote in message news:%2***************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... You can't have an NTFS "share" on a Linux box. No partitions. You can
have an SMB share though. However, if you use SSH then you don't need to muck with shares, just have the Leenucks box run sshd with the correct permissions and all that.
Putty is an SSH client that runs on Windows: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
But ultimately, yeah, you can use a share. It's just that it's very
tricky to set up Samba to serve as a file server for Windows clients. It's far simpler to set up the other way around (Linux reading Windows shares).
But there's a whole bunch of options, really. FTP/SFTP, SSH, shares, HTTP[S] and so on.
-- Klaus H. Probst, MVP http://www.vbbox.com/
"Dan V." <da**@yah.com> wrote in message news:eS*************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... What is all involved? Do I need a shared NTFS partition on their Linux box or a web service? What kind of security does this support? What is putty I have never heard
of this?
thanks, Dan
"Klaus H. Probst" <us*******@vbbox.com> wrote in message news:et**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... > SSH. Otherwise SSL over HTTP, assuming the Leenucks box has Apache
and a > certificate. > > SSH is just another protocol over TCP, so I suppose you could write your own > implementation, or get a third party component that wraps it for
you. You > could also "automate" it with something like putty (which is an SSH client > that runs on Win32). > > > -- > Klaus H. Probst, MVP > http://www.vbbox.com/ > > > "Dan V." <da**@yah.com> wrote in message > news:#4**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... > > Situation: > > I have to connect with my Windows 2000 server using VS.NET 2003
and C# and > > connect to a remote Linux server at another company's office and query > their > > XML file. Their file may be updated every hour or so. How can I
do this > > easily? I would like to use secure communication even encryption
if > > possible. I would query and insert locally only the newest
records found > in > > that XML file to an xml or MS access db. > > > > > >
Thanks for the great reply!
What ever is easiest, either they upload or my code going out and copying
/querying the file. I have an example where someone manually uploads a file
by pressing a button: <input type=file id=myFile runat=server />.
Whatever is the most secure and easiest for the many remote sites, I would
think automating by me getting their data would be best, but then would
their browser have to stay open? Or do you not have to use a browser and
still get encryption with SSL?
Also this may have to be done every day.
"Klaus H. Probst" <us*******@vbbox.com> wrote in message
news:uw*************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... I'd recommend HTTPS then. It's fairly simple to set up with IIS, but yes, you'll need a certificate. That will run you about $400, depending who you get it from. But now we're talking about clients uploading files, not your code going out to another machine and reading the file, correct?
The encryption strength depends on the browser. Normally for people
running fairly modern OS you can get up to 128 bits. Mozilla variants and IE
support this. But you can set up IIS to fall back to a lower bit strength if the client does not support 128 (usually 56 bits or so).
The code would reside on your Windows server; all the clients need is a browser. It's fairly easy to create the upload functionality using
ASP.NET. There are a lot of examples out there that show how to do this.
SSL does not require cookies, but it supports them.
-- Klaus H. Probst, MVP http://www.vbbox.com/
"Dan V." <da**@yah.com> wrote in message news:en*************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... Thanks for the options, I really appreciate it!
Since we have to connect to Linux, Mac and Windows PC's remotely and probably just copy the XML file and query it locally (as an easier solution), I am trying to decide which is easier of the two solutions to maintain and setup at 60 sites. These remote sites, do not usually have anyone technical on site. 1) Secure FTP. Either SSH or something. Ideally we install the
same version of the same program on all 3 platforms on everyone's PC. We now have to find a way to send an xml file every day or so to us. Can SSH auto send files or run a batch file on a schedule to our ftp site? Is it
true, that SSH will use a different port that may be blocked by firewalls and SSL over HTTP is better as 'everyone' has port 80 open? But the advantage
is that everyone is guaranteed to have a high level of encryption once installed - I can choose the level of encryption, so it is more secure
it sounds like? 2) SSL over HTTP. I would have to do a one time buy and setup a certificate on our server - that is OK with me. The way I understand it is the
client does not have to do anything except go to our https site and then the encryption starts... But this is dependent on the browser's encryption level. Clients that do not have high enough encryption will not have
any correct - or does it stop them from accessing the site? And may think
they are protected and this would be bad. Also, how could I automate on all platforms a file to be sent to us? It would be nice to be able to have the client get authenticated on our ASP.NET https site and then they click a button to upload the xml file (and have the option to do this upload automatically from now on); but does that require web/java script programming for on the client for every platform - or can the
programming be done from our ASP.NET server and I pull the data? SSL requires cookies, does it not, so is this is another point of potential failure? Thanks again,
"Klaus H. Probst" <us*******@vbbox.com> wrote in message news:%2***************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... You can't have an NTFS "share" on a Linux box. No partitions. You can have an SMB share though. However, if you use SSH then you don't need to
muck with shares, just have the Leenucks box run sshd with the correct permissions and all that.
Putty is an SSH client that runs on Windows: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
But ultimately, yeah, you can use a share. It's just that it's very tricky to set up Samba to serve as a file server for Windows clients. It's
far simpler to set up the other way around (Linux reading Windows shares).
But there's a whole bunch of options, really. FTP/SFTP, SSH, shares, HTTP[S] and so on.
-- Klaus H. Probst, MVP http://www.vbbox.com/
"Dan V." <da**@yah.com> wrote in message news:eS*************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... > What is all involved? > Do I need a shared NTFS partition on their Linux box or a web
service? What > kind of security does this support? What is putty I have never
heard of > this? > > thanks, > Dan > > > "Klaus H. Probst" <us*******@vbbox.com> wrote in message > news:et**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... > > SSH. Otherwise SSL over HTTP, assuming the Leenucks box has Apache and a > > certificate. > > > > SSH is just another protocol over TCP, so I suppose you could
write your > own > > implementation, or get a third party component that wraps it for you. You > > could also "automate" it with something like putty (which is an
SSH client > > that runs on Win32). > > > > > > -- > > Klaus H. Probst, MVP > > http://www.vbbox.com/ > > > > > > "Dan V." <da**@yah.com> wrote in message > > news:#4**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... > > > Situation: > > > I have to connect with my Windows 2000 server using VS.NET 2003 and C# > and > > > connect to a remote Linux server at another company's office and query > > their > > > XML file. Their file may be updated every hour or so. How can
I do > this > > > easily? I would like to use secure communication even
encryption if > > > possible. I would query and insert locally only the newest records > found > > in > > > that XML file to an xml or MS access db. > > > > > > > > > > > >
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