log transfers without user account

[Anonymous Monk]

I would like to be able to use perl to create an ipc or rpc socket level collection from each server without logging in. I am talking about whole file transfers. Is there such a thing or has anyone used this approach? Every time I think I have found it upon reading the code more carefully I see they are still using ftp, cp, scp, http. I want to use an IO socket to copy these log files. Can this be done? in perl? can I use a secure IO socket?

[mpeters]

You can only do this kind of thing if you can write both the client and the server code (daemon). And if you have a service running on a public machine that allows someone to just copy those files on a whim then you probably need to think about protecting that service with some sort of authentication and that puts you right back in the prospect of reinventing ftp or scp or http.

[tcf03]

Sounds like an awful lot of work for a problem with a myriad of solutions. What about Rsync and File::Rsync The August issue of sysadmin has an article about using rsync w/ ssh. There are also quite a few tutorials on the web.

[ikegami]

Of course you can write your own IP-based client and server in Perl. However, it would be cheaper and more secure to simply use a proven protocol like HTTP or HTTPS. Why are you avoiding these?