Just a totally radical feature suggestion, to implement the option to upload files through this module to external file hosting services such as listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_hosting_services at least those with an API available...

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eiland commented
Title: Filedfield to Rapidshare, megaupload and the like » Filefield to Rapidshare, Megaupload and the like
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eiland commented

So it would be something like scribdfield and Plowshare processing the files...

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FileField is not able to support remote files of any kind. In Drupal 6, we're tied to locally stored files only because the Drupal "files" table can only support local files (and that's what FileField ties itself to). Drupal 7 however completely changed the game with the introduction of Stream Wrappers, so the File module (the D7 version of FileField) can in theory support remote files and uploading to any source.

So in short, this feature won't ever make it into the D6 version, but D7 already has this capability to be extended in the way you describe (through modules like http://drupal.org/project/AmazonS3). Though in most cases, users who want such functionality are turning to Media module, as it provides a generic framework for various sources to work together (File fields even in D7 are limited to only one type of storage per field).

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eiland commented

yeah i guess it would be much more just a cck with an url of a file uploaded through the node-edit form or the add comment, to the rapidshare file. But that is not much different from scribdfield, which is a filefield too, no?

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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

In any case, you won't be seeing any external URL support in FileField. This module is already bug-fixes only, as it's been moved into core.