{"id":399,"date":"2011-09-08T13:52:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T11:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/?p=399"},"modified":"2011-09-08T13:52:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T11:52:21","slug":"filetea-a-simple-file-sharing-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/2011\/09\/08\/filetea-a-simple-file-sharing-system\/","title":{"rendered":"FileTea: a simple file sharing system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filetea.me\/\">FileTea<\/a> is a simple way to send files to other people: drag a file into your web browser, give the link to your friends and they can start downloading it right away.<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/filetea.me\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/files\/2011\/09\/filetea.png\" alt=\"FileTea\" width=\"400\" height=\"219\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/files\/2011\/09\/filetea.png 400w, https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/files\/2011\/09\/filetea-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>This is not a substitute for DropBox and the like. FileTea is not a file hosting service: the web server is only used to route the traffic, no data is stored there.<\/p>\n<p>You can see it as a web-based P2P file sharing system, or a replacement for good ol&#8217; DCC SEND. You don&#8217;t need to worry about firewalls or redirections: if you can surf the web, you can send the file. The only client that you need is your browser.<\/p>\n<p>FileTea is a project developed by my fellow Igalian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igalia.com\/nc\/igalia-247\/igalian\/item\/elima\/\">Eduardo Lima<\/a>, and you can see more details about it <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.free-social.net\/elima\/2011\/09\/01\/filetea-low-friction-anonymous-file-sharing\/\">here<\/a>. It was written on top of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.free-social.net\/elima\/2010\/10\/14\/eventdance-a-peer-to-peer-inter-process-communication-library\/\">EventDance<\/a>, a peer-to-peer inter-process communication library based on GLib and also written by him (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.free-social.net\/elima\/2011\/03\/19\/the-web-jumps-into-d-bus\/\">The Web jumps into D-Bus<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>FileTea is free software and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/gitorious.org\/filetea\/filetea\">download it<\/a> and install it in your machine.<\/p>\n<p>We have also set up a server at <a href=\"http:\/\/filetea.me\/\">http:\/\/filetea.me\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Important<\/b>: this is still an alpha release and our bandwith is limited so bear with us if you find any problem \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Happy sharing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FileTea is a simple way to send files to other people: drag a file into your web browser, give the link to your friends and they can start downloading it right away. This is not a substitute for DropBox and the like. FileTea is not a file hosting service: the web server is only used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,8,9,10,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debian","category-english","category-gnome","category-gpul","category-igalia","category-maemo","category-free-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}