Comment by 🚀 ingrix
Re: "New smolweb file transfer service"
@jsreed5 The utility is written in C and statically linked so that it can be aggressively chrooted. The redirect is a good idea that hadn't occured to me, thanks! I'll have to think on how to implement it but I like the idea.
2025-09-18 · 8 months ago
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🚀 jsreed5 · 2025-09-18 at 15:44:
The more I think about it, providing separate file names might introduce too much complexity. How should collisions be resolved? If a share code matches a file name, one runs the risk of either an infinite redirect loop or serving the wrong file. Unless you're willing to implement separate URLs for inputting the code versus downloading the file, it might be better to stick with only a share code.
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New smolweb file transfer service — Have you ever needed to transfer a file to someone, or maybe yourself, but you haven't had access to dropbox or whatever at the time? Or maybe you need to transfer something to or from a machine that you only have terminal access to? I ran into these issues, so I set up a service for piping data from the command line - literally, it acts like a unix pipe - using ingrix.info as a proxy. You also don't need to sign up for it! (Unless you want to send me a...