Just wanted to post a pointer to a file transfer patch made by Arto Bendiken (a name you might recognize from a large static page caching module: http://bendiken.net/2006/05/28/static-page-caching-for-drupal or the infamous Drupal vs. Mambo article: http://bendiken.net/ 2006/02/08/drupal-vs-mambo). See http://drupal.org/node/74472:

This is a simple & short patch against HEAD that adds a new file download method, "Custom", to the admin/setting/file-systems screen. With "Custom" selected, the "file_transfer_handler" configuration variable is expected to contain the name of a function that will handle the actual file transfer, and file_transfer() (in includes/file.inc) is modified to delegate the transfer process to that function.

We were working together last week and my small contribution was to lean over his shoulder and go "hey -- can't we abstract that?". This should make it possible for implementing some alternate file transfer methods -- like my current personal favourite, Amazon S3. Cheers, -- Boris Mann Vancouver 778-896-2747 San Francisco 415-367-3595 SKYPE borismann http://www.bryght.com