Kevin Lam wrote:
Yes, that would be fine for data that is not sensitive. I believe dropbox's API is publicly avail? perhaps there can be a dropbox user acct for each galaxy user acct?
I acknowlegde Nate's concern that its an additional waste of bandwidth hence I mentioned it's a convoluted way of getting data across. I imagine it might be helpful for those that already use such services to store their data on the cloud.
That said, has anyone considered the use of java uploaders that allow drag and drop like those for flickr and dropbox?
I haven't used dropbox, but flickr's browser uploader uses Flash, which loads the entire file into memory before sending (unfeasible for large files). Java is certainly something we've considered as an alternate in-browser uploader (which doesn't replace the regular form). We'd like to stay away from any sort of desktop uploader application.
Just tossing ideas about really. sorry if i sound like I don't know what I am saying.
Much appreciated, thanks! --nate
Cheers Kevin
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Dannon Baker <dannonbaker@me.com <mailto:dannonbaker@me.com>> wrote:
Quick supplement to what Nate said, if you did want to ship data from dropbox -> galaxy, you could (temporarily) throw the file to be shipped in your dropbox public folder and then put that public download link into galaxy's upload box and it would work fine.
-Dannon