Storage Uploads?

[David Kaye]

Okay, I am going to be needing a place where people can upload files,
probably 300MB at a time. It's got to be a simple thing without charge to
the uploader and with minimal UID/password stuff. These would be anonymous
folks, so I don't want any kind of authentication stuff on my end. I just
want them to be able to upload stuff and I want to be able to retrieve it
simply with no fuss or muss.

Ideas, folks?

[Rob Warnock]

David Kaye <***@yahoo.com> wrote:
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| Okay, I am going to be needing a place where people can
| upload files, probably 300MB at a time. It's got to be
| a simple thing without charge to the uploader and with
| minimal UID/password stuff.
+---------------

You mean like one of these [mentioned in recent HN threads]? ;-}

https://transfer.sh/
https://curl.io/
https://wsend.net/
http://chunk.io/
http://sprunge.us/
http://ix.io/
https://file.io/
http://paste.click/

Aside:
The "wsend" site and some of the HN commentors
mentioned this very relevant XKCD: ;-}

http://xkcd.com/949/
File Transfer

Anyway, if you want to put something like one of those up
on one of your own servers, there are plenty of tiny coding
examples around. Quite coincidentally, I recently found a
bunch of stuff while searching for the HTML spec for forms
with a file ("uploading") element [answer: RFC 1867].
Most of the following also contain example snippets of
client-side code (web page HTML) as well as server code:

https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-fileupload/
http://apache.webthing.com/mod_upload/
http://www.perlfect.com/articles/upload.shtml (Perl)
http://www.sitepoint.com/uploading-files-cgi-perl/ (Perl)
http://perlmeme.org/tutorials/cgi_upload.html (Perl)
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/273844-minimal-http-upload-cgi/ (Python)
https://github.com/guits/pastefile (Python)

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| These would be anonymous folks, so I don't want any kind of
| authentication stuff on my end. I just want them to be able
| to upload stuff and I want to be able to retrieve it simply
| with no fuss or muss.
+---------------

The list of sites at the top of this reply are all anonymous
[except, potentially, for the logging of the client IP address],
so that shouldn't be an issue.

The *big* issue is that without any authentication at all
you open yourself wide open to DoS attacks or misuse by
those who want to use your site to store malware or porn
or other illegal stuff. (*sigh*)


-Rob

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San Mateo, CA 94403

[Kevin McMurtrie]

Post by David Kaye
Okay, I am going to be needing a place where people can upload files,
probably 300MB at a time. It's got to be a simple thing without charge to
the uploader and with minimal UID/password stuff. These would be anonymous
folks, so I don't want any kind of authentication stuff on my end. I just
want them to be able to upload stuff and I want to be able to retrieve it
simply with no fuss or muss.
Ideas, folks?

SMB file sharing if your trust the uploaders and nothing fancy is
needed. If you semi-trust them, set up a proper drop-box share with
write-only permission. If you don't trust them, forget about it or
you'll be serving hardcore porn and pirated movies.

Authentication will be required. Bots are looking for anything open to
abuse.

[David Kaye]

Post by Kevin McMurtrie
SMB file sharing if your trust the uploaders and nothing fancy is
needed. If you semi-trust them, set up a proper drop-box share with
write-only permission. If you don't trust them, forget about it or
you'll be serving hardcore porn and pirated movies.
Authentication will be required. Bots are looking for anything open to
abuse.

Thanks. The idea was just to have a place where people could upload video
to me and to do it simply enough that even a bozo could understand it. I
hate Dropbox, but I guess it's popular...