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 (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 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 or later.