Dan Ritter wrote:
The web browser technology called WebRTC does that quite well,
but for security reasons -- nobody wants a self-perpetuating
worm -- you need an intermediary device to introduce the two
participants but not to actually transfer the file.
And so there is snapdrop.net, which you can choose to trust or
you can run your own copy -- it's GPL3. Works between any two
devices that run modern web browsers, including iPhones,
Androids, Linux, Windows, Macs...
Cool, I played with this today. So it seems like the website is called
'pairdrop.net' that works by default with the android app.
Bit of a shame that it requires an external introducer site. I read a
bunch of sites, nothing seems to explicitly say that the file transfer
is direct between one and the other and not through some sort of "bent
pipe". I'll tcpdump it at some point to convince myself.
I did not set up my own server (yet), though I read through the
instructions. Seems to be nodejs based and looks like a manual setup.
I guess nobody has built a debian package yet...
There are bluetooth solutions between Linux and Android and
Windows, but Apple does not allow bluetooth file transfer from
or to IOS with any operating systems they don't control.
Did some research how to do this over bluetooth, apparently most android
phones, certainly newer ones, you can pair the two phones and then use
the share feature of one phone and choose bluetooth and share it. Built
into the OS. Apparently works between phones and Windows. No internet
connection required, perfect. Doesn't work between ios as you say.
Learn something new every day!
Thanks for that!
Michael Grant
