anything new here?
lots of previous drama with it being declared shut down in Nov 2018 and then resurrected and then complaints of it being down again etc etc
Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line
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#12See also:
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#13http://file.io
Same, and IMO easier to remember (:
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#14Selfhosted alternative: https://github.com/kennell/curldrop
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#15This is exactly the use case for Magic Wormhole, which is what the cool kids use to transfer files: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole Magic Wormhole uses an end-to-end PAKE to create an encrypted transport between two points in the Internet, using a rendezvous server. It doesn't store files, which is almost never what you want; it's not a way to send a file and have 10 or 100 people download it. But it…
This and croc.
Link: https://github.com/schollz/croc
Re: Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line
#16This is exactly the use case for Magic Wormhole, which is what the cool kids use to transfer files: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole Magic Wormhole uses an end-to-end PAKE to create an encrypted transport between two points in the Internet, using a rendezvous server. It doesn't store files, which is almost never what you want; it's not a way to send a file and have 10 or 100 people download it. But it…
This and croc. Link: https://github.com/schollz/croc
Ha - so cool. I love that it can be easily used to send a stream (the only thing I missed in magic-wormhole). Basically,
ls -lah | croc send
Thanks for this link!
Re: Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line
#17This stores files for two weeks on a third-party server. What advantages for the intended use cases does transfer.sh have over netcat invented 26 years ago? I know some people who have used nc for those entire 26 years to xfer files point-to-point from the command line.
Netcat is seriously awesome, and still exists very much under the radar of a lot of people. I've used to to copy files around the planet, the datacenter, and the lab. It excels at doing things "right now". If I have a terminal window open on a server in France and one in the US; then I can easily move that file. However, If I have to move my body to the target location before I can copy the file it doesn't work as we…
I would like to know if there are any advantages to use nc instead of scp ?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Netcat is seriously awesome, and still exists very much under the radar of a lot of people. I've used to to copy files around the planet, the datacenter, and the lab. It excels at doing things "right now". If I have a terminal window open on a server in France and one in the US; then I can easily move that file. However, If I have to move my body to the target location before I can copy the file it doesn't work as we…
I would like to know if there are any advantages to use nc instead of scp ?
Most obviously, the same things as its disadvantages:) With nc, you don't have encryption or authentication, which is good - faster, no keys to set up, no fingerprints to accept - and terrible - no transport encryption, no data integrity verification, no access control except for at the network layer. Also, slight difference in how you use them: scp operates on files, nc on streams. But you can just pipe over SSH, so that's not a big difference IMO.
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#19Github https://github.com/dutchcoders/transfer.sh/
From the repo:
> Disclaimer
> The service at https://transfersh.com is of unknown origin and reported as cloud malware.
Re: Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line
#20This is exactly the use case for Magic Wormhole, which is what the cool kids use to transfer files: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole Magic Wormhole uses an end-to-end PAKE to create an encrypted transport between two points in the Internet, using a rendezvous server. It doesn't store files, which is almost never what you want; it's not a way to send a file and have 10 or 100 people download it. But it…
This and croc. Link: https://github.com/schollz/croc
Considering that a small deviation from a cryptographic protocol could fully turn cipher text to plaintext in a revered tool frequently recommended in HN:
https://redrocket.club/posts/croc/
I would hesitate a bit before rushing to use cool kids’ software (until it’s sufficiently proven).