All talk and ideas will be posted here in this thread. Mostly talk from me and Oldfart.
-- The web downloader will allow administrators to add authIds to the system to access files
-- The admin section will allow for admins to add servers which the files are hosted at
SWKE - Server who knows everything
1. Browser -> Swke
2. Browser < Swke servers login page
3. Browser sends AuthID -> Swke
4. Browser <- Swke sends list of servers if Auth OK
5. Browser chooses file -> Swke (maybe check Ips for closest server)
7. Browser -> does redirect to Remote Content server
8. Browser <- Remote Content Server - serves file
BTW: Where are those PHP/Apache/MySQL gurus when we need them ?
I was following up a few of the pointers that Da_FileServer gave us and I've found some things that I'd forgot (thank God for reference books - I even found my old ASP.NET book)!