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Can it have a little more security please? E.g. longer filename, more difficult to guess. And an encryption option would be nice.
Stop complaining and encrypt your stuff. You're the one making absurd requests to a fine small nice service here.
pip install magic-wormhole
wormhole send foo.tar.gz
Still, transfer.sh is hard to beat for flexibility. Magic-wormhole requires that users install something.
On a related note, I recently learnt that if you're on the same local network, there's a much faster way to transfer than the old tar|nc trick[0]: udpcast. You do $ udp-sender --min-receivers 1 --full-duplex --pipe 'tar czvf - theDirectory' on the sender and $ udp-receiver --pipe 'tar xzp' and at least on my home network it's 11x faster than tar|nc. There are some caveats[1] about udp not working well everywhere, and…
Just remember to compare checksums afterwards. Preferably a cryptographic hash... UDP is known for not being reliable at all, and that's partly why it's so fast --- the sender doesn't care whether the packets reached the receiver, it just sends as fast as it can.
The power of UDP allows the sender to have more control on things like how often transmissions are are acknowledged (tcp window size), or how to handle delays or errors. There are also some advantages because middle boxes who try to be smart and "make TCP" better for you can't really muck with the UDP packets all that much because the applications own protocol of how to handle UDP packets will not likely be know. This is why QUIC is such a big deal -- as a lot of the type of things a middle box might want to -- and do on TCP today -- muck around with are encrypted.
So I would not say that UDP is fast because it is not reliable, it is fast because it can allow a programmer to exploit the network in a more efficient way than TCP can for a specific type of data being transferred. There are many reliable UDP based protocols that achieve faster speeds than TCP in different situations.
Can it have a little more security please? E.g. longer filename, more difficult to guess. And an encryption option would be nice.
Then when I browse my email months later, I can't use the links :(
I wish tools such as this one would automatically incorporate the downloaded files into my email history somehow.
Can it have a little more security please? E.g. longer filename, more difficult to guess. And an encryption option would be nice.
Personally I've been using magic wormhole lately. It's p2p and very easy to use. https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole
I love magic wormhole, you give the recipient three words and a number and the file is sent peer-to-peer. No messing about with routing or anything.
Of course it's written in Go. It's amazing to see the language embraced that much for server side apps.
Static binaries are magic :)
What are the benefits of one over another?
Something like grokking this concept for once and all :D
tar -cf - ./files.txt ./orDir/ | ssh host "(cd /dest/dir; tar -xf -)"