How to send messages between Companies
I often see myself in the need of setting up automated transfer of messages/data/files between companies. Besides the monstrous EDIFACT, Odette and a few other "big" electronic data exchange standards every industry has a few dozen or even e few hundred relatively sane relatively light weight, relatively well documented file formats for orders and the like. What I'm missing is the right protocol to move files in this formats from machine to machine. The protocol should support authentication be usable with standard tools on MS Windows and unix support something transaction like: a file is