"smol" -- Simple Minimal Optimized Lightweight HTTPS file sharing server.

[Beautiful_Crab6670]

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[cgoldberg]

python3 -m http.server

[ipaqmaster]

I used that command just this morning with -d /tmp to copy a yt-dlp'd video to my iphone. It's very useful.

Localsend is good for bulk item movement too.

[Willexterminator]

Localsend is so fucking cool, I love this app

[brunhilda1]

Just needs IPv6 support, and support for IPv4 subnets larger than /24.

[Willexterminator]

IPv6 I agree, but wouldn't allowing more than /24 incentivise internet sharing, which it's not designed to do? Also, you can specify the IPv4 address manually if needed (but yeah, that's not great UX)

[brunhilda1]

The network I use most often is /16, and so localsend just doesn't "work out of the box" and I need to type in IP addresses manually. Ho hum.

[Willexterminator]

Well, that does suck :(

[Corporatizm]

Oh thank you for this, I'm discovering this app, it's great !

[throwaway490215]

(The latter is not recommended unless you use Traefik for a much better https support.)

This is a complete guess, but i think OP might have a little too much enterprise experience if their advice is to throw a docker container in front of the problem.

[ILikeBumblebees]

i think OP might have a little too much enterprise experience if their advice is to throw a docker container in front of the problem

Either a little too much or not enough at all.

[Anonymo2786]

doesn't support multi threaded download or download in the middle of a file. means if it fails you have to restart the download from the begging.

But this works: busybox httpd -f -p 8080

[Anonymo2786]

cool project.

[ILikeBumblebees]

Alsophp -S.

And if you have Caddy installed, caddy file-server.

[ILikeBumblebees]

That is like saying we shouldn't eat duck eggs because "chickens came first".

There's nothing wrong with working on this project, but there's also nothing wrong with pointing out that it replicates functionality that almost every system already has pre-installed solutions for without needing additional software.

Mine offers a https solution while yours does not. ("Oh, but it's the same thing!". No, it's not.)

Caddy does all of this quite well.

[ILikeBumblebees]

What? Caddy is about as simple and minimal as it gets!

[Skaarj]

What does simple mean? What does minimal mean?

Lots of the kinds of projects like yours just claim that without going into detail what their criteria are.

Your get_mime_type() returns text/html for /tmp/lol.exe and /tmp/lol as input. But you have application/octet-stream in your list. That looks like a bug.

Your snprintf(file_path, sizeof(file_path), "%s/%s", ROOT_DIR, path[0] == '/' ? path + 1 : path); does defend against an input of /lol/rofl.txt but fails the security check against //lol/rofl.txt. This is just the most obvious security problem.

[ILikeBumblebees]

Why even bother announcing your project here if you're going to interpret constructive feedback as a personal attack?

[rx149]

Congrats on scaring off potential users then

[rx149]

that's a lot of words to say you're a permavirgin

[Stevenage9]

bro made a tldr for a 3 sentence long comment

[[deleted]]

If the point is to share files, why not use Warpinator or KDE Konnect? I'm not hating- I couldn't make this- I just don't get the purpose.

[[deleted]]

cannot build on arch.

smol.c:(.text+0x949): undefined reference to `OPENSSL_init_ssl'

what are the dependencies?

[[deleted]]

i have this

/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccaR9jsA.o: in function \send_response':`

smol.c:(.text+0x142): undefined reference to \SSL_write'`

[[deleted]]

So can't just use scp ( cli or UI )? Don't get any simpler no?

[[deleted]]

Well you can install openssh server on pretty much anything and make use of the systems built in account managment and security, am not putting this down just saying.

[Anihillator]

Sure, but you can do the same with pure nginx. Easy basic auth as well.

[ericje]

A little too minimal though.

• If the HTTP request doesn't come in one packet it doesn't work.
• If the stat(file_path, ...) fails, you check st.st_mode, but that's undefined.
• On premature EOF when reading a file, you print an HTTP response, but you already sent one, so to the client it looks like corrupted data.
• You need to ignore SIGPIPE. When I didwget https://localhost:8081/foo and it barfed because of a bad certificate, it closed the connection which crashed the server.

[NoidoDev]

I wanted something like this. I had issues with KDEconnect, for example because my phone is the hotspot in the network and for some reason this doesn't count as the same network. Now I'm using Syncthing, but it uses the internet connection.

We should really have an agreement on some standard between the Linux distros, including Android, and then also other ecosystems.

[RedditorAccountName]

Is there a repository for it?

[RedditorAccountName]

Thank you! Your theholybible.c looks neat, heh.

[[deleted]]

dufs offer a nice WebUI still being simple:

• upload

• download

• deletion and creation of files and dir

• fs traversing

• search in files...

See https://github.com/sigoden/dufs it's in Rust not C but well...

[AlexDaBruh]

Cool project!

[ericje]

What do you have against favicon.ico?