Re: [Gnumed-devel] lab data fetcher/importer connection methods

[Ian Haywood]

J Busser wrote:
> What method(s) for connection and data transfer are in use in Germany 
> and Australia?
>
> In British Columbia (Canada) it appears there are at least two methods. 
> One data clearinghouse requires SSL VPN connections to their repository 
> (?) which the customer queries (details yet to come).
Proably HTTP over SSL, this is easy to do in Python
> The other data clearinghouse provides a mailbox system in which discrete 
> files are picked up via sftp using a Windows (only, Visual Basic) client
                          ^^^^
SFTP is part of SSH. This sounds quite strange,

> provided by the clearinghouse. They advise me they would be willing to 
> have a clinic's (non-Windows) server connect but that they would require 
> the clinic server to run an sftp daemon so that the clearinghouse would 
> push (?) the files onto the clinic server.
Even stranger. I'm not sure this really is the SFTP I'm thinking of.
We need heaps more information to comment.

Ian

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