You went on a trip with a couple of friends. Each one of you had a fancy camera and took a couple of gigabytes of pictures. How do you share all the photos without paying for expensive cloud storage? That's where gimmedat comes in. This tool allows the owner to create upload links and anyone having them can then upload any files to the server.
- works on Linux
- simple to setup (no external services needed, just run one binary)
- no persistent storage on the server except for the data files
- one upload link, multiple files
- files can be uploaded by people with a non-technical background
When uploading files, these invariants hold:
- a successfully uploaded file cannot be overwritten, failed partial files can be overwritten
- the upload directory will always contain fewer bytes that the data limit
- no data can be written to disk after the time limit expires
There are currently no known security issues invalidating the above invariants.
# minimalistic example
gimmedat --secret secret
# all options example
gimmedat --secret supersecretsecret --listen-ip 127.0.0.1 --port 3000 --base-url "https://gimmedat.example.org"
firefox http://localhost:3000/- Magic Wormhole - no need for a server, usually requires relay and the publicly hosted one is slow, requires synchronous cooperation between parties sharing files