I find myself often having to transfer a random files from another person’s device to mine. Existing file sharing solutions aren’t exactly ideal because they either require me to remember a very long URL (file shares), or requiring me to log in on others’ device (cloud). I’m wondering if there’s a program where anyone can upload files, but can only be viewed and downloaded from the server by authenticated users. I understand it’s not wise to accept files from unauthenticated users, but it would be so damn convenient. If there isn’t one, I suppose that would be my next project.

  • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    I’m wondering if there’s a program where anyone can upload files, but can only be viewed and downloaded from the server by authenticated users.

    Email does that. Anyone can send it to your mailbox, only you can download it.

    • Object@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      Actually, that’s what I’ve done. It gets a bit tedious when the file size gets a bit big.

      • magikmw@lemm.eeEnglish
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        9 hours ago

        You may be surprised but a private (self-hosted) torrent tracker is how I did this when I had crappy internet and had to send over a bunch of pictures and video to family.

        You can encrypt the data before sending, although it still should be fairly safe, speeds don’t matter much, there’s no storage to pay for or risk leaking.

  • fartsparkles@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    What’s the context in which you’re needing to share files?

    My first thought is host your own FTP server and send people credentials to log into it with and upload.

  • CaptainPedantic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    There’s PairDrop. It might have what you need. It’s for transferring files rather than uploading and then downloading later. You could get creative with authentication. Maybe put files in an encrypted archive file.

  • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 day ago

    You could get around with a normal file share service (assuming you already are using one) via tinyurl or similar redirect. I don’t know how much the free services track you or if they have other security implications, but I have couple of domains laying around and it would be pretty trivial to just create HTTP redirect from “class-a.up.mydomain.foo” to my nextcloud upload link.

    • Object@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      I honestly did not know Nextcloud allowed uploads without login. I definitely need to check that out.

  • dgdft@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    While I’m sure there’s a pre-canned tool out there for you, if you have basic software experience (which you seem to), this is one of those times where it’s usually most efficient to hack together a dumb CGI script and call it a day.

    This prompt should get you most of the way there, using your llm of choice:

    Write a minimalist cgi script to help upload files to a server. Upon a GET request, serve a light page with a centered form that takes in a file and a submission code. Submission codes will be stored on individual lines of a plaintext file. Adding new codes to this file is out of scope - but the codes will be 8-char hex strings (do validate that submission strings are not empty!). The script should accept the submission as a POST, and save the file to an upload dir if the submission code is valid.

    Vet the output, harden as needed, setup a systemd service to serve with busybox httpd, and optionally reverse-proxy. If you’ve done this sorta thing before, you can probably knock it out in a half hour.

  • DaGeek247@fedia.io
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    1 day ago

    I use htts://file.pizza. It’s open source and has password protection options and everything.