Sweet, now you can get your own URLs that are as ugly as Google+ ones.
Host webpages on Google Drive
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Re: Host webpages on Google Drive
#32They serve user supplied JS from googledrive.com domain? Can it be done in a secure way?
Dropbox also does that. You can potentially host your website within your 'Public' Dropbox folder. I'm sure Google is not using http://googledrive.com/ for anything that's user-identifiable. The only harm that I think can happen with JS is you being able to access/set any cookies/storage that are set by another 'public' site hosted on Google Drive that you've accessed earlier.
> I'm sure Google is not using http://googledrive.com/ for anything that's user-identifiable.
Look at the screenshot in the article. It is in fact using https://googledrive.com/
Re: Host webpages on Google Drive
#33Is the URL of that document pretty reliable or is it not really meant for the long term? I'm thinking of whether there would be issues with using a custom domain for it.
I currently host a static website from S3, and I still have to pay a couple of bucks for the traffic. Sounds like this would be completely free.
Re: Host webpages on Google Drive
#34Sorry guys but I think GitHub/Bitbucket beat you to the punch, not to mention all the PaaS apps out there.
Hosts more than css, html, js (for output)
Custom domains
Collaboration via revision control.
I see zero reason to ever use this when there are so many betters tools out there .
Re: Host webpages on Google Drive
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really? Could you give more detail - at what level of traffic do they shut down links?
https://www.dropbox.com/help/45/en Looks like 20GB (free) or 200GB (paid) per day.
That's PER link, so you can drop it in another folder, change the link, and maybe it refreshes since it's a different link? Can someone from Dropbox confirm this?
Re: Host webpages on Google Drive
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dropbox also does that. You can potentially host your website within your 'Public' Dropbox folder. I'm sure Google is not using http://googledrive.com/ for anything that's user-identifiable. The only harm that I think can happen with JS is you being able to access/set any cookies/storage that are set by another 'public' site hosted on Google Drive that you've accessed earlier.
> I'm sure Google is not using http://googledrive.com/ for anything that's user-identifiable. Look at the screenshot in the article. It is in fact using https://googledrive.com/
Yes, it uses googledrive.com, but not for anything user-identifiable.
The threat is that a user logs in to googledrive.com and receives an authentication cookie tied to their Google account. Later, they view a malicious user page at googledrive.com/host/someevilpage, and a script on that page reads the authentication cookie and sends it to the attacker, who can now log in to googledrive.com as the victim.
That doesn't happen here because you don't actually log in to googledrive.com. The worst a malicious script could do is harvest data set by other scripts, and that's a drastically smaller (although still present) threat.
Re: Host webpages on Google Drive
#37now it says: "There are currently too many people viewing this file. Please try again later."
#whois googledrive.com Registrant: Matt Serlin DNStination Inc. 303 Second Street Suite 800 North San Francisco CA 94107 US admin@dnstinations.com +1.4155319335 Fax: +1.4155319336
Note that the name servers are correct, though:
ns{1-4}.google.com
Re: Host webpages on Google Drive
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really? Could you give more detail - at what level of traffic do they shut down links?
https://www.dropbox.com/help/45/en Looks like 20GB (free) or 200GB (paid) per day.
Seems like more than enough for simple sites shared with a bunch of people you know. That is about 600 GBs of bandwidth a month, for free.
If you need more bandwidth, you would probably be looking at any of the other innumerable hosting solutions available on the web.
Re: Host webpages on Google Drive
#39Sorry guys but I think GitHub/Bitbucket beat you to the punch, not to mention all the PaaS apps out there. Hosts more than css, html, js (for output) Custom domains Collaboration via revision control. I see zero reason to ever use this when there are so many betters tools out there .
cmon no need to pile on
Re: Host webpages on Google Drive
#40Sorry guys but I think GitHub/Bitbucket beat you to the punch, not to mention all the PaaS apps out there. Hosts more than css, html, js (for output) Custom domains Collaboration via revision control. I see zero reason to ever use this when there are so many betters tools out there .
Other people are doing this too? Cool. More options to choose from. And I think that's kind of the point. Marketplaces work best when there is choice.