Comment by 🌆 skyjake
Does anyone know if uploading data is supported?
No, Nex only supports downloads. There is a separate protocol called NPS for uploading data, and it is similarly very simple/limited:
— nex://nex.nightfall.city/nps/info/
Lagrange only supports Nex, not NPS.
Could you make something like a BBS with just Nex or would you need someting else to upload data?
Well, you could hack something together with data encoded as file paths, but not sure how much sense that makes... Uploading data in some form is pretty essential for a discussion forum, for making posts and comments.
what's up with directories?
Yeah, paths that end with a slash are assumed to be directories.
2025-01-26 · 1 year ago
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Data upload? — So the spec is really short and I'm not sure I understood it completely. Does anyone know if uploading data is supported? Could you make something like a BBS with just Nex or would you need someting else to upload data? Cause from what I can tell there's no way to upload data. Also what's up with directories? From what I understood from the spec, if the server sends => and then a url, that's a link to something in the directory. But how does that client know it's supposed to be...