# What software for internet https or https file sharing **URL:** \ **Category:** SLES Networking\ **Created:** [May 7, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/what-software-for-internet-https-or-https-file-sharing/23947 "2013-05-07T18:23:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dstucke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@dstucke](https://forums.suse.com/u/dstucke)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/what-software-for-internet-https-or-https-file-sharing/23947/1 "2013-05-07T18:23:05Z")
I have a Suse Linux box and I want to do authenticated file sharing on the web, like FTP, but with http/https. Have googled a fair bit but no joy, and the built in software repository doesn’t provide for this. Can anyone give a pointer on what software is best for this? ---
**Author:** ![ab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@ab1](https://forums.suse.com/u/ab1)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/what-software-for-internet-https-or-https-file-sharing/23947/2 "2013-05-07T18:56:31Z")
Could you provide more about how you will use this? Do you have Novell’s Open Enterprise Server, or licenses for it? Novell’s Filr product is made to make file sharing in the 21st century work as you’d expect and may be worth researching. It has its own forum on the [forums.novell.com](http://forums.novell.com) site and is relatively new, but works with multiple desktop/laptop OS’s as well as mobile devices like phones/tablets. Good luck. ---
**Author:** ![dstucke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@dstucke](https://forums.suse.com/u/dstucke)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/what-software-for-internet-https-or-https-file-sharing/23947/3 "2013-05-08T17:53:55Z")
OK, the mechanics are this… We do some work for a customer and want to let them access some of the finished documents. So we used to run a sles server with pureftp on it and created a logon for each customer that wanted to access files. This worked for the most part, but it seemed that FTP was not accessible for all our customers. So now instead of FTP, we like the idea of using http or https, and want to provide a browseable folder structure they can log on to. We have NOWS and am I believe (will have to check) entitled to FILR, so we may check it out. ---
**Author:** ![ab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@ab1](https://forums.suse.com/u/ab1)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/what-software-for-internet-https-or-https-file-sharing/23947/4 "2013-05-08T18:30:53Z")
> OK, the mechanics are this…[color=blue] > We do some work for a customer and want to let them access some of the > finished documents. > So we used to run a sles server with pureftp on it and created a logon > for each customer that wanted to access files. > This worked for the most part, but it seemed that FTP was not > accessible for all our customers. So now instead of FTP, we like the > idea of using http or https, and want to provide a browseable folder > structure they can log on to. > We have NOWS and am I believe (will have to check) entitled to FILR, so > we may check it out.[/color] Pretty common… I do not understand the blocking of solicited FTP connections to the outside world, but some places apparently have their reasons… though I personally think they’re probably bad reasons. Oh well. I think Filr is probably a pretty good option for you assuming licensing works out. Even if not that, iFolder is still free and web-based among other options (clients can also run to automatically synchronize things) and access can be read-only or read-write at least. Good luck.