[Rhonk]

I was thinking of a great feature possibly. Why leave the task of uploading and storing media up to manord? There's a technology that's been around for a while that I've used with great success called WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning). Just by the name it sounds like a great way to handle media uploads. In theory I would say WebDAV would just be an OPTION available to hosts and owners. The best way to describe it in layman's terms is FTP via HTTP. I've used it with GREAT success with Macromedia's Contribute. Basically it's a set of extensions to several web servers. The features it supports are:

Locking (concurrency control): long-duration exclusive and shared write locks prevent the overwrite problem, where two or more collaborators write to the same resource without first merging changes. To achieve robust Internet-scale collaboration, where network connections may be disconnected arbitrarily, and for scalability, since each open connection consumes server resources, the duration of DAV locks is independent of any individual network connection.

Properties: XML properties provide storage for arbitrary metadata, such as a list of authors on Web resources. These properties can be efficiently set, deleted, and retrieved using the DAV protocol. DASL, the DAV Searching and Locating protocol, provides searches based on property values to locate Web resources.

Namespace manipulation: Since resources may need to be copied or moved as a Web site evolves, DAV supports copy and move operations. Collections, similar to file system directories, may be created and listed

The reason I mention this as a THEORY and not a REQUEST is it takes a lot of time and effort to efficently support WebDAV. The good thing about using DAV is people will eventually get their Windows Personal Manor Server and have no knowledge of running a webserver. With WebDAV, a server could flag all clients and tell them to use WebDAV to send props to the webserver. Also, the owners can use the remote server for their updates. As of now, I believe all uploads are made via the manord (correct me if I'm wrong Scots). This would take a load off the manord and allow personal servers and owners with limited bandwidth the capability of remote storage.

Anywho, I need to get to work but I shall elaborate later.
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-Erik "Rhonk" Arnson

[Scotsman]

Well for one personal servers won't necessarily use a webserver. This because many ISP's today block the HTTP port as they don't want people running servers from their personal machines.