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Re: Show HN: YouTransfer – Self-hosted file sharing

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to reiterate what dchest said, you should never use MD5 anymore, even if you do intent to hash something. MD5 is is broken and should not be used for anything anymore.

What about Gravatar?

Please just stop using it? It's the feature no one asked for.

Re: Show HN: YouTransfer – Self-hosted file sharing

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Congrats on the project. Without loading and looking myself, how are the file accessible on the server? I asked because I'd like to have clients use this to send ME files only. Is that an option?

Currently, the files are stored as a flat file list on the file system using their randomly generated token to create a [token].json and [token].binary file. The JSON file contains meta information, the .binary file is the actual file.

Using the default settings, you would get something like "./uploads/0b692a00635682fabc78b6a50655242c.binary" in the application directory.

I've already has plans on making it possible to change the interface, for instance not allowing direct download from the homepage. I could ament this with the feature to send email notifications to the system administrator upon successful file transfer. The combination of both would allow you to use YouTransfer.io as a public drop box for files. Does this sound about right to you?

Re: Show HN: YouTransfer – Self-hosted file sharing

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post #38
post #37

Congrats on the project. Without loading and looking myself, how are the file accessible on the server? I asked because I'd like to have clients use this to send ME files only. Is that an option?

Currently, the files are stored as a flat file list on the file system using their randomly generated token to create a [token].json and [token].binary file. The JSON file contains meta information, the .binary file is the actual file. Using the default settings, you would get something like "./uploads/0b692a00635682fabc78b6a50655242c.binary" in the application directory. I've already has plans on making it possible…

Yes, it sounds as expected. Thank you again for your work.
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