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Re: Direct file transfer via browser with no server involvement

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This thread is devolving rapidly but: > Not even, the application is making GET, POST and PUT requests to send the file to a /link endpoint Capableweb definitely said the file is being sent to the server. Not sure how much more literally that could be said, in fact. You somehow managed to quote the second line of that comment (some might say "cherry pick") while completely missing the first line where they explicitly…

Yes, in order to send the file, the application is making GET, POST, and PUT requests. He didn't say the file was sent over the requests. We obviously understood this differently. If you and Kiro could just recognize that different people can understand that sentence in different ways, we wouldn't be there, but instead you like to proclaim that "no one is saying anything about" and "what's being disputed is" and othe…

> send the file to a /link endpoint

This isn't some ambiguous statement that is open to interpretation. They literally said the file is being sent to a /link endpoint. What part of that statement of you struggling to parse?

Re: Direct file transfer via browser with no server involvement

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> But I suppose that would be basically impossible on today's internet. Bittorrent works just fine here.

No it doesn't. (you're relying on someone's public server for it to work).

Originally we did, and we still do, as it's way more convenient. But the bittorrent protocol has been improved so that it doesn't need servers anymore. The Distributed Hash Network can handle peer discovery and search queries too.

Re: Direct file transfer via browser with no server involvement

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Use an app like https://www.lonelycatgames.com/docs/xplore/wifi-share over the local wifi (or make the android a hotspot to connect directly) ?

Yes if course there are Apps. There are Apps for everything .. but this should work just without something special.

you want hotspot/wifi filesharing standard with the OS? would be useful indeed but I'm not surprised we don't have that.

maybe running python -m http.server in Termux is more attractive.

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