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From: Natasha Kerensikova <lithiumcat@instinctive.eu>
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Subject: ANN: HTTP file server v1.0-beta1
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 20:43:27 +0000 (UTC)
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Hello,

I had stopped posting announcement about my personal projects here
because it seemed useless and made me feel like a lunatic rambling in
the desert about things completely disconnected from reality. But now
I'm trying very hard to convince myself that there's a small possibility
that somebody here might find it useful.

So this is a program based on AWS, meant to solve the problem of
transferring a file from one computer to another, when the most
convenient way to do so is using an intermediary HTTP server (e.g. when
both computer are deep behind NAT routers and/or stringent firewalls).
That fact it happens so often is a testament to the sad state of IT
nowadays.

And it obviously requires the ability to run a custom HTTP server, which
unfortunately restricts severely the potential audience.


More specifically, it is designed for the following scenarios:
 1. the service owner wants to make a file available to one or several
    people, sharing a download link,
 2. anybody wants to send a file to the service owner

while avoiding abuse, modelled as the following scenario:
 3. somebody makes a file available to somebody else without knowledge
    or consent from the service owner.

To achieve this, the uploader can only access a report page, to ensure
the file has been correctly uploaded. To compute the download link, a
server-wide secret is required, presumably only known by the service
owner.

More details are available on the full-length project description page,
on the official fossil repository page at
http://fossil.instinctive.fr/simple-webapps/doc/tip/README.md
and on the GitHub mirror at
https://github.com/faelys/simple-webapps


This version is labelled "beta" because I have been running it in
production for a while now, without finding any fault, but so far to the
best of my knowledge nobody else has tried it, and the fact that by
myself I haven't found any bug in my own code does not mean much.

So if you're interested in the application, please let me know, I will
gladly consider any bug report or feature request.

If not, would please at least have a look at the documentation pages I
linked above, and tell me whether it's clear and makes sense and allows
someone to deploy it, or whether there are some parts obscure or
missing.

I would also gladly read any comments or reviews about my code or the
concept, but that's much more than I dare hoping.


Thanks for your attention,
Natasha