It is literally using the same wormhole-william backend that I am using for wormhole-gui. I don't quite see how that would be any different. Interestingly enough, I have actually never gotten that one to work :)
Okay. Might be good to open an issue for that on https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne. I personally use Linux as my main development platform and cannot reproduce it.
The GUI people then need to fix their first sentence "Wormhole-gui is a cross-platform graphical interface for magic-wormhole that lets you easily share files, folders and text between computers on the local network."
Good point. I might have to update that. I have never actually tried transferring between two networks and did not want to advertise i in case it didn't work.
Not in my experience. Most solutions I've found tended to be more work/brittle than just emailing the file to myself, which is a sad statement about ad hoc file sharing.
Other solutions like $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer or spinning up an ftp server work okay too but sometimes you run into NAT problems if you're traversing e.g. residential home networks.
Magic wormhole is simply the best way to get files between arbitrary points A and B, irrespective of operating systems or NATs and firewalls in between. I've never had it not work.
I think it might be worth mentioning that I am planning on adding mobile support pretty soon. Some experimental work has already started on the mobile branch: https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/tree/mobile.
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It only has a CLI tool right now for desktops. It works in the browser though, so that is great for users looking for a GUI!
Sorry I'm very dumb here.
Or am I confused again?
Not in my experience. Most solutions I've found tended to be more work/brittle than just emailing the file to myself, which is a sad statement about ad hoc file sharing.
Other solutions like $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer or spinning up an ftp server work okay too but sometimes you run into NAT problems if you're traversing e.g. residential home networks.
Magic wormhole is simply the best way to get files between arbitrary points A and B, irrespective of operating systems or NATs and firewalls in between. I've never had it not work.
> Cross-platform graphical user interface for easy encrypted sharing of files, folders, and text between devices.
...in Go using Fyne (as noted in another comment)
[0] https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne