This is pretty cool. It's a nice start. I'd like a solution for transferring for example ~1TB files securely. Global scape is the only easy sol I've found so far for sharing securely with one off partners, I mean beside encrypted drives.
Looks interesting, but a quick glance through the site and the primary GitHub repo doesn't give much information about the project. Is there any differentiating factor here besides being CLI-first?
Firefox send has much better UI. You have to actually read the text of transfer.sh to find out how to upload via browser, while Firefox Send is immediately obvious for the average Joe.
It says that the files will be removed after 24 hours, or after the first download, so I imagine storage requirements are not going to be completely unmaintainable. It's still gotta cost a bit though.
It does work in Safari Tech Preview so it'll work in Safari 11 when that's released. Looks like it relies on the Web Crypto API which is prefixed (and possibly an incompatible version) in Safari 10.
One thing I noticed was that it deletes the file upon download initialisation and not completion. So one downside is that if your friend cancels the download to try again later, they won't be able to.
One upside is that others won't be able to initiate and get the download at the same time - but perhaps if the download was cancelled, the tab closed, the item should become downloadable again?
send.firefox.com says that my browser (Safari) is unsupported. Anyone know what particular "web technology" the site uses that Safari doesn't support?
Edit: Found it. It's checking for window.crypto.subtle. Looks like Safari TP supports this. I believe the problem with Safari 10 is that it implemented an older version of the web cryptography standard.
If like me you wondered where was the encryption key... It's the fragment identifier of the URL, i.e. not sent as part of the request to the remote server, it a client-side only value.
Well, it is part of Mozilla TestPilot, whose goal is to let you test experimental functions in exchange to extensive tracking of your use of those functions.
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[ 7.6 ms ] story [ 63.7 ms ] threadSomething like https://file.pizza is really neat, and apparently have no upper limit.
One upside is that others won't be able to initiate and get the download at the same time - but perhaps if the download was cancelled, the tab closed, the item should become downloadable again?
Edit: Found it. It's checking for window.crypto.subtle. Looks like Safari TP supports this. I believe the problem with Safari 10 is that it implemented an older version of the web cryptography standard.
Don't suppose anyone from Mozilla can fix that?