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Show HN: I made a file sharing tool that encodes the files within the URL

1 pointsby below433 months ago
I built this tool to transfer files using just the URL, without storing files on a server.<p>The file is Base64-encoded and embedded as a payload within the URL via the URI fragment (delineated by the # character) which means the file&#x2F;payload shouldn&#x27;t get sent to the server.<p>Built mainly for fun, but I have found limited use cases for it (eg. I use a shared mouse&#x2F;keyboard + clipboard across multiple machines, so use this to transfer files between them; I also have found it useful for file transfers to mobiles - via Edge&#x27;s URL to QR code feature).<p>It&#x27;s really only suitable for small file transfers as you might imagine!

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