hi
Why did the FTP/FTPS/SCP thing not work out?
Did you try adding HTTP/HTTPS/WebDAV to the server which you setup to do FTP/FTPS/SCP?
From the sounds of it (if you know how to setup and run an FTP server) you should easily be able to add HTTP capabilities on the front end of it. It's just a bit more configuration.
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Lily lara