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Ill be making this 'AppStore' program. You will be able to upload files for others to download, and download files others have uploaded. It will be like a big program sharing program wahooo; Maybe you will be able to charge either real-money or some kind of custom currency for the programs you upload. I need to know one thing, how do you want to login? Do you want to

• Login directly with your CnS User ID & API Key?
• Register an account with your CnS User ID & self-chosen password?
• Register an account with a self-chosen username and password?

Just answer in the poll

Cool an appstore hope my programs get on my iphone appstore too lol jk

You should put it on YouTube and anyone can join with username and pass

I like the idea of people registering with their UserID and a password of their choice. Sounds like it is going to be a little complex though but I can't wait to see what it will look like

If I use the User ID and the program gets popular we will have many more members on CnS, but it might be a problems with someone registering with another User ID than their own. Maybe a verification should be sent to the users email, but to get that I need the API key. I'll hope we can figure out the best solution. Maybe register with username and pass and 'link' to a CnS account? That would be awesome!

Use MYSQL for Register and LogIn feature.
And encrypt passwords etc of users with some kind of encryption, to make it more secure.
Also maybe a Upload File Blacklist for illegal files to prevent users from uploading illegal files.

Greetz PayneStudios

I chose the 3rd option.

Are you going to limit file sizes? And are you going to automatically scan all files?

I started building a system like this, yes it is a good idea only issues being, server speed/space, security, internet speed,

unless you have a way to negate the fact FTP is unsecure, and so is mysql to a point then the application is full of holes

i worked out an entire way to do it so that the client never EVER connects to mysql or FTP so if you require any help let me know and i will see what i can do for you

I won't be using FTP/MySql at all. All communication is done through an SslStream class, and the server software will be built by me so I can sort of get my own transfer protocol instead of relying on FTP/HTTP. I hope that Dummy can host the server. I can post the project to DropBox and share it with you so you can see the little I have done. If you don't have DropBox ill just send the files if you want to have a look.

GoodGuy17 wrote:

I chose the 3rd option.

Are you going to limit file sizes? And are you going to automatically scan all files?

I will use the AVG command line scanner to prevent viruses and maybe a size limit, I hope I won't have to have a limit lower than 10 MB. I will do what I can to get harddrives, so if someone donate it will be no limit at all.

PayneStudios wrote:

Use MYSQL for Register and LogIn feature.
And encrypt passwords etc of users with some kind of encryption, to make it more secure.
Also maybe a Upload File Blacklist for illegal files to prevent users from uploading illegal files.

Greetz PayneStudios

A file blacklist won't be effective at all. It would take too long time to scan the files with filename/file content. Just a single byte difference would make that fail.
And no MySQL at all: Mainly because I have no idea how to use it, and other because its unsecure (I've been told).
I will encrypt the passwords, but there will probably be no need because there is no way to access them.