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Re: [Chicken-users] Cryptographic eggs


From: Peter Bex
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Cryptographic eggs
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:40:18 +0100
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On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 08:00:55PM +0000, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote:
> For S3, I'll need to implement the S3 protocol, which is mainly HTTP
> PUTs and GETs with special HTTP request headers for authenticating the
> requests. For some reason that daunts me (in my experience, it's often
> a pain getting the hashing *just right*), but I'm sure I'll get there.

Which egg would you use to do these requests?  Intarweb, http, or hand
roll something?  It would be really nice if we could deprecate the http
egg for Chicken 4.

> But - what shall I do first? Which would people find most useful? SFTP
> will let you run backups to anywhere you can SSH to, while S3 will let
> you only run backups to S3 - but S3 is a nice cheap place to put
> backups. Personally I need S3 most for my backup requirements, but I
> want to support both.
> 
> VOTE! :-)

I don't find S3 all that exciting, while SFTP is very nifty to have.

So I vote for SFTP.

Cheers,
Peter
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 is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically
 and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic
 experience much like composing poetry or music."
                                                        -- Donald Knuth

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