ONLINE FILE SHARING
Palaniappan Ramanathan · 2006
File sharing is one of the oldest applications of the internet. One way of sharing files online is for a user to upload files to a common space on the web and others users can download the files from the common web space. The objective of this project was to design an online file sharing website where users can upload files and other users can download them. To attain this objective an AJAX enabled interactive user interface involving features like versioning control, RSS syndication and extensive search capabilities was developed. To make the website more user friendly, users were given two space-constrained visualizations of their file system to view space occupied by the files and folders, and three AJAX based file management system that works like browsing files on a computer with drag and drop and context menu functionalities. This report discusses the implementation details of the website, and the advantages of having different visualizations of the file system. This report also addresses one frequently asked question regarding file storage; where to store the files, in database