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https://github.com/tokeshu/fipes

Plumbings to share files with your friends.
https://github.com/tokeshu/fipes

erlang file-sharing

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# Fipes, plumbings to share files



Fipes provides you a simple way to share files with your friends.



## Goals



  - Provides a small web application.

  - Easy to install, easy to launch, easy to use.

  - Doesn't keep any data about you or your files.

  - Free as in freedom.



## Getting Started



### Requirements



  * [Erlang](http://www.erlang.org/download.html) (R15B or later)



### Install the project



    $ git clone https://github.com/tOkeshu/fipes.git

    $ cd fipes

    $ git checkout -b stable v0.1.0 # last stable version

    $ make



These commands should pull the Erlang dependencies.



### Configure Nginx



Here is a sample configuration for nginx (you will need **nginx 1.4** or later to

have WebSocket proxying):



    # /etc/nginx/sites-available/fipes.example.com

    server {

        listen 80;

        # Or the line below if you want https

        # listen 443 ssl;



        root /path/to/fipes/public;

        index index.html index.htm;



        server_name fipes.example.com;

        server_name_in_redirect off;



        # Uncomment the lines below if you want https

        # ssl_certificate     /path/to/fipes.crt;

        # ssl_certificate_key /path/to/fipes.key;

        # ssl_protocols       SSLv3 TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;

        # ssl_ciphers         HIGH;



        location / {

            proxy_read_timeout 900;

            proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3473;

        }



        # We need to turn off the buffering for Server-Sent Events

        location /stats {

            proxy_buffering off;

            proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3473/stats;

        }



        # WebSocket proxying (requires nginx 1.4 or later)

        location ~ /fipes/([^/]+)$ {

            proxy_read_timeout 900;



            proxy_http_version 1.1;

            proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3473/fipes/$1;

            proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;

            proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";

            proxy_set_header Host $host;

        }



        # Uncomment the lines below if you want to launch the js tests

        #

        # location /tests/ {

        #     proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3473/tests.html;

        # }

    }



    # You may want to uncomment the lines below to always redirect

    # http to https

    # server {

    #     listen 80;

    #     server_name fipes.example.com;

    #     # Redirect http to https

    #     rewrite ^ https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent;

    # }



Enable your site:



    $ sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/fipes.example.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/fipes.example.com

    $ sudo /etc/init.d/nginx reload



### Start the server



    $ cd fipes

    $ make start # start the server as a daemon on port 3473



Then open a browser to http://fipes.example.com (where

`fipes.example.com` is your domain).



If you just want to test the application on your machine, just edit

your `/etc/hosts`:



    # /etc/hosts

    127.0.1.1	fipes.example.com



and launch the server with:



    $ make dev



## Bugs/Pitfalls



  * Fipes is not p2p. However no data is stored on the server

    **ever**. The data just pass through the server, that's all.



  * Reloading the page while you're in a Fipe will stops the browser

    from serving your files. This is normal as the JavaScript File

    objects are lost while refreshing the page. You'll have to offers

    these files again.



  * For now, anyone can enter a Fipe.



## Contribute



See `CONTRIBUTING.md` in this repository for the contributing guidelines.



## What about the name



Fipes is a [Portmanteau](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau)

word combined from the two words *file* and *pipes*. In other words,

Fipes can be seen as a *pipe* for *files*.



## License



Fipes is released under the terms of the

[GNU Affero General Public License v3](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html)

or later.