File sharing server for small files
https://postit.piggo.space
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# PostIt file sharing server
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PostIt is designed to work as a temporary public storage for text (and other)
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files uploaded to it by software that need a publicly reachable page without
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hosting its own server or even having a public IP.
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The primary use case is to share diagnostic and contextual information
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produced by Fediverse bots (think an interactive game where the game board
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is rendered to an image or text file on demand). There are sure to be many
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other uses I didn't think of.
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The uploaded files have a lifetime of 10 minutes, which can be shortened or
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extended up to 1 hour (or more, as configured).
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## Uploading a file
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To upload a file, send a POST request to the running PostIt server.
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```none
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$ curl -X POST --data-binary @RICKROLL.txt 0.0.0.0:7745 -i
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK
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X-Secret: 5273d775746e393b
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X-Expire: 599
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Content-Length: 16
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421d082ef85827ea
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```
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Take note of the `X-Secret` header, you will need it to update or delete the file.
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If you only want to share the file, this is all you need. Grab the file ID from the response body
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and share it. The URL is `/<FILE_ID>`, e.g.
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```none
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$ curl -X GET 0.0.0.0:7745/421d082ef85827ea -i
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8
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X-Expire: 459
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Content-Length: 688
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File content here...
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```
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### Content type
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The server attempts to auto-detect the file's `Content-Type`. The fallback is `text/plain`.
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If you wish to set a custom type, use the `Content-Type` header when uploading the file, e.g.
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```
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$ curl -X POST --data-binary @RICKROLL.txt 0.0.0.0:7745 -i -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
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```
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### Expiration time
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To customize the expiration time, use the header `X-Expire: <seconds>`, or a GET argument `?expire=<seconds>` e.g.
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```
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$ curl -X POST --data-binary @RICKROLL.txt 0.0.0.0:7745 -i -H 'X-Expire: 60'
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```
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## Updating a file
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A file you uploaded can be deleted or modified using the **secret token** obtained in respose to its upload.
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Send the token as the `X-Secret` header, or GET argument `?secret=....`
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File is updated by sending a `PUT` request to the file's URL.
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The `PUT` request can change file expiration (`X-Expire: <secs>` or GET arg `expire`),
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update its `Content-Type`, or replace its content.
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Note that sending `PUT` with empty body will *not* clear the file, in that case the file content is
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not changed at all. This can be used to extend file's expiration without changing it in any other way
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(by sending the `X-Expire` header).
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## Deleting a file
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The `DELETE` verb, unsurprisingly, deletes a file. As with `PUT`, the secret token is required.
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