Subj : Download via web ?
To   : Digital Man
From : Errol Casey
Date : Sun Jan 05 2025 19:32:49

  Re: Download via web ?
  By: Digital Man to Amessyroom on Sun Jan 05 2025 03:03 pm





 DM> Can you cite what wiki page you're referring to? I don't know of anything
 DM> like that being removed.

I got confused with FTP and HTTP in what I was reading on wiki.

https://wiki.synchro.net/history:newfilebase?s%5B%5D=transfer
Look under FTP

 DM> Downloading
files
via
FTP
and
HTTP
are
integral
features
of
Synchronet.

 DM> Sending a link to someone via the terminal server could be done (wasn't
 DM> done before that I recall), but FTP URLs aren't really all that useful
 DM> these days since you can't use them in modern web browsers and an HTTP URL
 DM> would depend on *how* you're sharing your files via the web: ecWeb or
 DM> webfileindex.

So as stated, FTP isn't as useful since it isn't built into browsers ; and may require another client and/or complications due to unique network configurations.

Is there a way to share a web URL when someone downloads, vs using a protocol? To facilitate a web download for large files? 

I'm using webv4, I've not heard of webfileindex. So I guess I probably, do have web URLs for my files; but didn't know if there was a way to turn on that feature for downloads from the terminal server, or if it might be considered a feature to add.

Thanks.
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