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Apart from Pake, all that applies to Resilio, which I'm pretty sure has a bigger uptake than the rest combined.
I mean, Google Drive has more uptake than any of these things. We're comparing PAKE-driven file transfer schemes.
I don't see KDE Connect mentioned so I'd like to just say it's great. Send files and clipboard between PC/Mac/Linux/Android/iOS. And it's a native QT app so pretty light. Only works on same network though.
Unfortunately didn't work well for me using the gnome libraries on linux or mobian/phosh. (If you don't want to install KDE just for file transfer, etc.) scp on the other hand is bulletproof when hosts are directly accessible.
I agree that a secure way to transfer files between systems is a must. If two systems are at the same location, a small USB card reader (nowadays easily OTG capable) and an SD card allow me to transfer data. For systems connected only by a network: maybe I don't see the advantages of these tools (which I have to install first on any client) as all systems I use already provide ssh and rsync to do secure file transfer…
A useful utility that a friend wrote is https://github.com/akovacs/uploadserver - it's basically a nicer version of:
python -m http.server 8000
Start the file server, and then navigate to it using the web browser of your choice on any device (no need for a client application).
chmod +x upload_server
./upload_server
curl -X POST --data-binary @file_to_upload.txt http://192.168.1.X:8000/uploaded_file.txt
curl http://192.168.1.X:8000/uploads/uploaded_file.txt --output downloaded_file.txt
# install rust toolchain
sudo apt install rustc git
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
rustup install nightly
rustup default nightly
git clone https://github.com/akovacs/uploadserver
cd uploadserver
cargo run --releaseI like croc, wormhole, snapdrop and whatever else there is I just don't get that there is no universal convenient standard for transferring files from one device to another over a wired/wireless connection. Mindboggling that most people use cloud hosting or email to transfer a file from one device to another when they are just 30cm from each other.
python -m http.server 8000
A friend wrote a faster and more sophisticated version of `python -m http.server 8000` in rust which also supports uploads, you can read about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37628347
I like croc, wormhole, snapdrop and whatever else there is I just don't get that there is no universal convenient standard for transferring files from one device to another over a wired/wireless connection. Mindboggling that most people use cloud hosting or email to transfer a file from one device to another when they are just 30cm from each other.
Used to be "put it on a USB stick". Now no-one carries those so email/google drive it is :-) When sharing files between devices I own (including my mobile phones) I attach them to a draft email to myself, then get them from the drafts on the other device.
A friend wrote a faster and more sophisticated version of `python -m http.server 8000` in rust which also supports uploads, you can read about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37628347 File transfers are over the local network, and therefore should be very fast.
I wish there was an easier way to send things to/from a phone. I use a 1-person slack channel for this because I can't find a simpler way. Google Drive and Dropbox are both awful mobile clients.
A friend wrote a faster and more sophisticated version of `python -m http.server 8000` in rust which also supports uploads, you can read about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37628347
File transfers are performed over the local network, and therefore should be very fast. If you don't have a network connection, you can just enable a Wifi hotspot on your mobile device and transfer the files over that. There is no need to install any software on the mobile device, you can just use a web browser to browse to a directory that you share over the network.
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Unfortunately didn't work well for me using the gnome libraries on linux or mobian/phosh. (If you don't want to install KDE just for file transfer, etc.) scp on the other hand is bulletproof when hosts are directly accessible.
Weird, works fine on xfce connecting to Android and iOS for me.
I wish there was an easier way to send things to/from a phone. I use a 1-person slack channel for this because I can't find a simpler way. Google Drive and Dropbox are both awful mobile clients.
[1]: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile
†: There's also a working iOS port but its not released on the App Store because of how hostile Apple makes that process to open source developers.