Self hosted piping with ui
farfromrefug opened this issue · comments
I am very interested by your project. Especially thinking about using it to transfer files between my local network devices.
Is there a docker or something for the server + piping ui ?
Thanks
Thanks.
Actually, I had also the same idea. But I don't do that because of a security reason.
Suppose https://ppng.io/ has a richer UI like Piping UI. Piping Server is designed for integrating HTTP seamlessly. For example, you can see https://ppng.io/myimage.png transferred image data. Suppose you open https://ppng.io/myweb.html and a web browser can interpret as HTML and run a script in the HTML. Although Piping Server has a feature for not interpreting and not sniffing a text as HTML for browser, I should not make the simple Web UI on Piping Server richer.
So, Piping Server and Piping UI should have different domains. Let me know If you have some idea to solve the security problem.
I understand (i think the issue). Although from a user point of view this is not an issue. When used on a local network to simply share files, you dont care as the network is not opened to the outside.
Another solution would be to automatically use a password and store it client side as a cookie or something. That way you dont always have to enter it.
Just for why i am really interested by your project. Right now i use snapdrop to share files. But it uses webrtc which makes it not work with privacy enhanced browsers like bromite or chromium ungoogled.
Yours should work anywhere