[consulting] $500 Bounty: Download Module

[Dominic Ryan]

I am in rather urgent need of having a download module developed to 
specification for Drupal 4.7 so that I can complete a migration project. 
I've looked at other modules, and Disknode comes close but lacks several 
required features. My requirements might be achieveable through 
development of the existing Disknode code, but am willing to look at 
starting from scratch if need be. For simplicities sake I will use 
Disknode as a base of reference, and the following requirements are over 
and above what Disknode already has;

1) AJAX Uploader: Implement AJAX uploader code from core upload.module. 
Not sure if it is possible, but an upload completion indicator would be 
really handy here to, but not required.

2) Remote File Storage: Need to be able to specify a download URL 
located on another server/website. This is actually the major feature 
lacking in Disknode that is holding me up my migration to Drupal.

3) Presentation: If using the Disknode codebase, some tidying of 
presentation will be required.

4) File Mirror: Users with the "upload files" permission have a "mirror 
file" checkbox that if checked will automatically download the file 
specified in the remote download URL. If no remote download URL is 
specified or the "mirror file" box is not checked, then the user is 
prompted with the AJAX uploader to upload the file from their local PC. 
Disknode already has the functionality to download remote files to the 
local repository.

5) Bad Link Checker: Have a link checker that is able to check through a 
definable number of links per cron run for bad links. If a bad link is 
found and the file is mirrored locally then all requests for that file 
should be redirected to the local file. All bad links should be listed 
on an admin page to alert admin with a delete option to clear alert when 
rectified.

6) PAD Support (http://www.asp-shareware.org/pad/): Allows nodes to be 
added and updated remotely via XML by the node owner.

Bounty: $500AUD ($375USD/£205GBP).

Delivery time: Preferably 2 weeks, but can stretch to a month (at most).

All offers welcome, but please no day dreamers as this project is 
already 4 months behind schedule. If you are interested please contact 
me. Previous Drupal module development work would be a great advantage. 
If public interest is shown, then I would also like to have this module 
released back to the Drupal community.
-- 
Dominic Ryan
IT Headquarters Webmaster
Microsoft IIS MVP
MCSA, MCSE, CCNA
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