Re: Sending a lot of data to remote site

Ryan A wrote:

Hey, Thanks for replying. ...

('hugo_the_boss','james007bond','max_power','etc') in "peak season" I expect the array to go upto 5k entries but very unlikely as I will be transferring data every minute of only new entries.

ok so the data is pretty simple and predictable - I take it that the max length of the username is known, this way you can calculate pretty well how much data you could be send at a time. ...

Every 2 mins max, usually every min.

that is fairly often :-) I would not use a webserver based solution - go directly to CLI. setup a deamon script on your server that listens to a port for an incoming connection from the remote server -- use a SHA hash token known only to the client and server script for a means to to do a simple form of protection (so only the remote server you want can connect and download). ... and pump out binary packed data on request. (I have never used the pack()/unpack() commands but this seems like an opportunity for using them) again just an idea - maybe someone with more experience in this area can comment as to it's validity.