Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send

Some other WebRTC file transfer options:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wormhole.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wormhole.app&#x2F;</a> (my recent fave, by creator of WebTorrent, holds for 24h, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;instant.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;instant.io</a> by same)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;file.pizza&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;file.pizza&#x2F;</a> (p2p, nothing stored)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webwormhole.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webwormhole.io&#x2F;</a> (same, but has a cli)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sharedrop.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sharedrop.io&#x2F;</a> (same, does qr codes)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;justbeamit.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;justbeamit.com&#x2F;</a> (same, expires in 10 minutes)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;send.vis.ee" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;send.vis.ee</a> (hosted version of this code)<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;send.tresorit.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;send.tresorit.com&#x2F;</a> (not p2p, 5 GB limit, encrypted)<p>I track these tools here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;href.cool&#x2F;Web&#x2F;Participate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;href.cool&#x2F;Web&#x2F;Participate&#x2F;</a>

Maintainer here, thanks for posting!<p>Feel free to ask any questions.<p>Want to try it out? I&#x27;ve a public instance at: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;send.vis.ee&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;send.vis.ee&#x2F;</a><p>Other instances: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;timvisee&#x2F;send-instances&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;timvisee&#x2F;send-instances&#x2F;</a><p>A docker-compose template: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;timvisee&#x2F;send-docker-compose" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;timvisee&#x2F;send-docker-compose</a>

An observation. This is the second time today we&#x27;ve had a submission link to github, even though the main repo is on git<i>lab</i> (the first was <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27047243" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27047243</a>)

This is excellent! I&#x27;ve been missing Firefox Send ever since they took it down.<p>However, it needs to be hosted somewhere.<p>...and if I&#x27;m going to be using a hosted service, I&#x27;d like the ability to easily pay for it (so that it doesn&#x27;t eventually collapse or resort to shady things like ads), either though donations or microtransactions for bandwidth&#x2F;storage.<p>Unfortunately, there&#x27;s no good microtransaction service.<p>Wasn&#x27;t Mozilla working on one? Where did that go?<p>...and thus, we&#x27;ve gone full circle.<p>And I&#x27;m typing this comment in a Chrome browser, because my company is migrating away from Firefox due to &quot;security issues&quot;.

Do you know what led Mozilla to stop this experiment (I&#x27;m assuming spam)? Will this not be an issue for your instances as well?

After trying all these WebRTC options and the NAT traversal service (STUN, iirc) always being down, I ended up using IPFS instead. With public gateways from CloudFlare it is very easy to effectively drag and drop files and have them accessible via the IPFS-to-HTTPs gateway.

Semi-related, but is GitHub&#x27;s search by programming language feature broken on this repo?<p>I&#x27;m curious about &quot;FreeMarker&quot; being the top language so I clicked on it, surprisingly it returns zero code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;timvisee&#x2F;send&#x2F;search?l=freemarker" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;timvisee&#x2F;send&#x2F;search?l=freemarker</a><p>So does &quot;javascript&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;timvisee&#x2F;send&#x2F;search?l=javascript" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;timvisee&#x2F;send&#x2F;search?l=javascript</a>

Naive question: The github page says 62% of the languages used in this repo is FreeMarker. I checked the repo and every file I look at is js, what and where is FreeMarker?

I&#x27;m liking croc with a CLI on each end.

I know everybody&#x27;s posting tons of alternatives already, but I&#x27;m curious why <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;transfer.sh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;transfer.sh</a> isn&#x27;t included. It has very simple instructions for encrypting against a recipient&#x27;s Keybase GPG key, works from the site or command line, and has 14 days of retention.<p>Just curious, since I keep seeing Wormhome mentioned, but I never seem to see anyone mention Transfer (unless it&#x27;s just a lesser known option and I happened to hear of it early).

There&#x27;s also a CLI for Send (ffsend): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;timvisee&#x2F;ffsend" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;timvisee&#x2F;ffsend</a>

The big advantage of Firefox Send was that it was hosted by Mozilla, and I could trust that Mozilla wouldn&#x27;t have any backdoor in the service.<p>When the same project is hosted by someone that I don&#x27;t know, I can&#x27;t be sure that they won&#x27;t modify it to peek at the files (I&#x27;m not going to perform a full code audit on every page load).

Is there a way to use ffsend if I drop some basic auth in front of the upload?

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I&#x27;d like to set this up one up of my own servers...

Best HN post in months...

Oh, I forgot about that one. Yet another Mozilla project that worked well that was abandoned. (Remember Firefox OS? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;killedbymozilla.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;killedbymozilla.com&#x2F;</a>) I know what you&#x27;re thinking : They did not abandon Rust ! Well I just learned from a post that recently made it to the HN front page that management was considering dropping Rust. The only reason they did not was because of someone who fought hard for it.