This might be a bit of an absurd request, but could be useful in some situations.
In the File Manager, it would be nice if in a folder you could provide an url of a file to 'fetch' (possibly using wget) into that folder.
+1
I wouldn't trust my users with it lol
twest I agree. When it comes to something like that, we have to think like sysadmins and consider the ramifications of that. If a person downloads and uploads, there is at least one extra step to slow the roll of something nasty being delivered to the site root... But a url, copy and paste... wow. No. And I don't want other site analytics seeing the goings-on of the file manager.
8Dweb Understood. Maybe there is a way they can build in some security features to mitigate these concerns.
8Dweb Maybe make it restrictable to specific packages. A lot of people don't have the best upload speed. It can take a long time to upload large file when server to server would be basically instant. Maybe don't allow download directly to a public folder and not filetypes like php bash etc. Those should be small anyway.
It's definitely possible but I think it's quite an unusual requirement. It might be easier just to add an article to your knowledgebase explaining to a user how to connect with ssh and use wget.
Adam Agreed that its unusual, but just thinking from a convenience to user point of view.
