secure uploading

[Paul Rubin]

"macaronikazoo" <macaronikazoo at gmail.com> writes:
> i'm after a way to securely upload a file to a web server and I'm
> wondering how to go about it.  basically i want to upload a small text
> file to my hosted webspace once every hour or so.  because it will be
> happening once an hour, i want to make sure the transaction is
> encrypted, but i don't really know how to do this.  can someone point
> me in the right direction?

Use SSL/TLS.  It's not a scripting thing, just set up your server to
enable encryption.  If you use apache, http://modssl.org might get you
started.