alexcoder04 / rfap

proof-of-concept network file access protocol

Reliable File Access Protocol

This project is in alpha stage, so expect radical changes to come.

This repository contains documentation, specifications, overviews, organizational information and general discussions about the protocol. See related projects for actual implementations.

Protocol specifications (in progress)

• for general protocol specifications, see specification.md
• for YML metadata specification, see metadata-example.yml
• for a full overview of commands, see commands.md
• for a full overview of error codes, see errors.md

Related projects (in progress)

• https://github.com/alexcoder04/rfap-go-server - reference server implementation
• https://github.com/alexcoder04/librfap - Python library
• https://github.com/BoettcherDasOriginal/rfap-cs-lib - C# library
• https://github.com/alexcoder04/rfap-pycli - Python CLI client based on librfap
• https://github.com/alexcoder04/rfap-fuse - FUSE implementation in Python based on librfap

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.

Why did we start this project?

FTP is too old.

NFS is unencrypted.

SMB is too complex.

WebDAV makes not much sense.

SSHFS is for nerds.

So what is the best way to share files?