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Author:  Moe [ 10 Feb 2015, 23:21 ]
Post subject:  ...share files or folders between laptops over a network?
Ken had asked about a simple way to share files.

This is a little trick for sharing files that I think is slick if you don't want to install anything extra.

As part of the Standard Library for Python is a SimpleHTTPServer, in Python 3 it's called http.server

Say you're on IP 192.168.0.10 and you want someone on the LAN to fetch (a) file(s) from your machine.

In the terminal navigate to the directory the file(s) is/are located. Enter:
Code:
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
if you want to be modern it's
Code:
python3 -m http.server
All files in that directory and following subdirectories will be available through a web browser at http://192.168.0.10:8000

When the transfer is finished <ctrl><c> will terminate the server.

It is so slick I make an alias for it in .bash_aliases
Quote:
alias serve="python3 -m http.server 8800"
so to serve files I just enter serve. (Default port is 8000, I use 8800 because 8000 and 8080 are already busy in an unrelated effort.)

You gotta admit this is pretty cool, but what if someone wants to send you a file but don't have a capable operating system like Navigatrix?

Get droopy. Droopy is a 13kB download, and installed only takes up ~75kB.

Install droopy
Code:
sudo apt-get install droopy

I created a small configuration file
Code:
medit ~/.droopy
It looks like this
Quote:
--message=Hi, You can send Moe a file.
--picture=/home/moe/droopy/wadda111.png
--directory=/home/moe/droopy
8088
This creates a web server (port 8088) with a welcome message and picture. Any files sent to me will go into the droopy directory I previously created (mkdir ~/droopy).

I like 'point and click' so I created a menu entry Menu> Internet> RECEIVE Stuff with
Code:
medit ~/.local/share/applications/droopy.desktop
Code:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=RECEIVE Stuff
GenericName=Receive Stuff
Comment=Have people send you things via the intertubes
Icon=/usr/share/icons/cab_view.png
Exec=droopy
NoDisplay=false
Categories=Network;
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
The 'file receiver' starts up and you can see it by pointing your browser to localhost:8080. Anyone on the local network can send a file via, for example, http://192.168.0.10:8080. There is also a handy device at the top of your localhost:8080 to give your 'outside' URL so your uncle from Upper Combuckton can send you something as well.

The only think missing from this simple configuration is a startup notification to let you know it's lauched, and, currently the droopy shutdown is
Code:
killall droopy
or logging off.

For the next week, or until I regret publicly posting this URL...take a look at http://wadda.ddns.net:8088 <--No-IP redirector because I have a dynamic IP

See what the Python server (python3 -m http.server 8800) looks like, and download, the files people have sent to me via droopy.

http://wadda.ddns.net:8800/

You are responsible for your own actions. Forewarned is forearmed, and everything is logged. But that shouldn't stop the curious.
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