[UCIMC-Tech] help/advice for RFU website

[Joe Futrelle]

Hi, I want to develop a form for the RFU website that lets members download
recordings of shows.

The recordings reside on grimlock which I think Brian set up so the
filesystem holding the recordings can be mounted remotely.

The first approach that occurs to me is that I could write a Drupal module
that would drop into the RFU website so Drupal's access control config could
limit access to authenticated RFU website users (we can't just publish the
recordings to the world at large because of licensing issues). The module
would allow users to select which show and which airdate they want, and they
would get an mp3 (access to uncompressed recordings via the website I
imagine raises bandwidth issues and so that could be handled offline).

If there's already a "download a file from a filesystem (with some
filtering)" module for Drupal then I wouldn't have to write one.

Alternatively, the recorder script could generate a feed for each show and
the webserver could serve the feeds, but then there's the issue of how to
secure the audio itself--again, we can't just make it web-accessible to
unauthenticated users.

Any and all advice or help welcome.

All of these approaches require mounting grimlock's fs on a world-facing
host, which I don't have sufficient credentials to do, so I could use help
with that.

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Joe Futrelle
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