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    Robin
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    #1

    Some feedback, based on having tried out surfer (great little app, by the way!)

    • The "App passwords" dropdown for a surfer instance mentions SFTP, which seems a little wrong.
    • It might be useful to mention _webdav in the documentation, as an alternative for interacting with surfer?
    • It would be great to be able to customize the handling of some mimetypes. For example, when uploading a QML file, surfer will serve it up with application/octet-stream, rather than a text type, which makes browsers offer to download it, which is a bit annoying given how they are basically just text.

    Lastly, a small script here for anyone who wants basic "upload this file" functionality but cannot use npm for whatever reason. You are expected to have a file ~/.surfer/auth with two lines (user/pass), and ~/.server/server which contains the bare hostname to upload to. You can use Cloudron's app passwords feature to avoid using your "regular" password, for some added paranoia.

    #!/usr/bin/env bash
    set -euo pipefail
    
    user=$(head -n1 ~/.surfer/auth)
    password=$(tail -n1 ~/.surfer/auth)
    server=$(cat ~/.surfer/server)
    
    # the file to upload...
    FILE=up.sh.txt
    curl -T "$FILE" -u "$user:$password" https://$server/_webdav/
    echo "Uploaded to https://$server/$(basename $FILE)"
    
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    • R Robin

      Some feedback, based on having tried out surfer (great little app, by the way!)

      • The "App passwords" dropdown for a surfer instance mentions SFTP, which seems a little wrong.
      • It might be useful to mention _webdav in the documentation, as an alternative for interacting with surfer?
      • It would be great to be able to customize the handling of some mimetypes. For example, when uploading a QML file, surfer will serve it up with application/octet-stream, rather than a text type, which makes browsers offer to download it, which is a bit annoying given how they are basically just text.

      Lastly, a small script here for anyone who wants basic "upload this file" functionality but cannot use npm for whatever reason. You are expected to have a file ~/.surfer/auth with two lines (user/pass), and ~/.server/server which contains the bare hostname to upload to. You can use Cloudron's app passwords feature to avoid using your "regular" password, for some added paranoia.

      #!/usr/bin/env bash
      set -euo pipefail
      
      user=$(head -n1 ~/.surfer/auth)
      password=$(tail -n1 ~/.surfer/auth)
      server=$(cat ~/.surfer/server)
      
      # the file to upload...
      FILE=up.sh.txt
      curl -T "$FILE" -u "$user:$password" https://$server/_webdav/
      echo "Uploaded to https://$server/$(basename $FILE)"
      
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      Robin
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      #2

      A few other small suggestions while I'm thinking of it:

      • It would be nice if the admin UI had the ability to multiselect (and perhaps "select all") files, to delete a bunch of stuff at once.
      • It would be neat if it were possible to write-protect a file to prevent it being overwritten or deleted without removing the write protection
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        robi
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        Has @nebulon seen this?

        Conscious tech

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          Has @nebulon seen this?

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          @robi indeed I have, some like better content type handling and multiselect are in preparation.
          The _webdav point is I think already fixed, as it is mentioned in the settings dialog within surfer.

          Write-protection is going to be harder. Surfer does not even have any database or so to store per-file/folder metadata.

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            @robi indeed I have, some like better content type handling and multiselect are in preparation.
            The _webdav point is I think already fixed, as it is mentioned in the settings dialog within surfer.

            Write-protection is going to be harder. Surfer does not even have any database or so to store per-file/folder metadata.

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            Robin
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            @nebulon My thinking for write protection was actually that it could - literally - use filesystem permissions rather than introducing a database. Check if the file is writable before deleting/writing, and fail if it isn't writable (or offer to override, which will have to chmod +w it)

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