[HN Gopher] Show HN: OnionShare with Just Tor and Redbean
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Show HN: OnionShare with Just Tor and Redbean
Author : ndren
Score : 23 points
Date : 2021-08-03 16:37 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| This is an aside, but I wish HTML had the concept of "alt text",
| for text.
|
| This page links to here: https://justine.lol/ape.html and the
| title of that page, while "readable", generates absolute garbage
| from a screenreader.
|
| It would be nice if web page authors could add metadata which
| describes how to read weirdly styled text.
| saurik wrote:
| Use aria-label + aria-hidden?
| ndren wrote:
| Hey HN,
|
| A while ago I was exploring the boundless realm of file sharing
| (https://xkcd.com/949) and I was a bit bothered by how it was,
| roughly speaking, either accept questionable privacy policies and
| hope the person on the other end can determine you were /not/
| sharing singles in their area, or get your own domain name. Both
| of those are pretty awkward.
|
| How about OnionShare? It is a good solution and I do not want to
| detract from it, but depending on python and flask felt
| unnecessary. How about implement it from the ground up? (Again,
| keeping away from the root user for the same reasons.)
|
| A little digging through the tor manual pages, and a lot of
| support from Justine's amazing HTTP server redbean, I got my own
| file server on the Tor network!
|
| The biggest hurdle was redirecting port 8080 on redbean to serve
| HTTP on the standard port; I'm not entirely sure how tor does
| this without root priviliges. I would love to know if someone has
| better insight into what tor does under the hood in this
| circumstance.
|
| Happy self-hosting!
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