Re: Download via web ?
By: Errol Casey to Digital Man on Sun Jan 05 2025 07:32 pm
Can you cite what wiki page you're referring to? I don't know of anything like that being removed.
I got confused with FTP and HTTP in what I was reading on wiki.
https://wiki.synchro.net/history:newfilebase?s%5B%5D=transfer
Look under FTP
That is referring to an HTML index file that the FTP server used to be able to dynamically generate and send to web browsers, back when they supported the FTP protocol. That feature was removed since web browsers stopped rendering HTML files sent via FTP quite long time ago now.
Is there a way to share a web URL when someone downloads, vs using a protocol? To facilitate a web download for large files?
Yeah, I'm working on a way to make that easy for sysops.
I'm using webv4, I've not heard of webfileindex. So I guess I probably, do have web URLs for my files; but didn't know if there was a way to turn on that feature for downloads from the terminal server, or if it might be considered a feature to add.
Yeah, it's a pretty simple addition to just display a URL. The user will have to copy/paste from the terminal into a browser (unless their terminal has support for clicking on URLs).
Technically, the webfileindex isn't needed for sending files via HTTP/HTTPS either, just the Enabling of "Filebase support" in SCFG->Servers->Web Server. The webfileindex is just a(nother) way to display indexes (directories) of files to users with file descriptions and such. It's enabled by default in new installs of v3.20:
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º ³Enabled Yes º
º ³Index Script webfileindex.ssjs º
º ³VPath Prefix /files/ º
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This is separate from the ecWebv4 method of sending files via http/https.
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