{"id":5,"date":"2007-04-26T20:56:08","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T17:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/http\/kometbomb.net\/wordpress\/minishare\/"},"modified":"2007-09-07T11:39:26","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T08:39:26","slug":"minishare","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/http\/kometbomb.net\/projects\/minishare\/","title":{"rendered":"MiniShare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"download\">You can find MiniShare on <a href=\"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/http\/minishare.sf.net\/\">the SourceForge project page<\/a><\/p>\n<div style='float:right;margin: 25px'><a onclick=\"urchinTracker('\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/minishare.png');\" href='https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/http\/kometbomb.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/minishare.png' title='minishare.png'><img style=\"border:0\" src='https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/http\/kometbomb.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/minishare.thumbnail.png' alt='minishare.png' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>MiniShare is probably my most famous project. It&#8217;s a very minimal web server that is basically used by dragging files on it and then copying the URL it generates. <\/p>\n<p>I have found the program very useful when sending files to someone when no proper file transfers are possible. Also, it is a lifesaver when installing stuff on a fresh computer; it&#8217;s usually much less work to use the web browser to download essential stuff to a fresh box from a computer running MiniShare than setting up proper network shares or installing BitTorrent or other software. <\/p>\n<p>Talking about BitTorrent, there is also the fact that sometimes it is impossible to have some people even try FTP or BT and so on but even the technically non-savvy are familiar with downloading files using a web browser. That was the idea originally: a kind of transparency to the receiving end, considering you do everything else with the browser, too.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the project is on hiatus for two reasons: there aren&#8217;t any features that are urgently needed and more importantly, it needs a thorough code rewrite (now that I know what not to do).<\/p>\n<h3>MiniShare 2<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been planning this for ages and it will eventually happen. However, I do not plan adding much more features apart from basic file system link (so you can just add a directory and it will update automatically) and a better GUI. Also, I will try to make it as portable as possible (the source code for MiniShare is <em>crap<\/em>).<\/p>\n<h3>Legacy<\/h3>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m sure I didn&#8217;t come up with the whole drag-and-drop\/private web-server concept but I like to say that to get chicks. In any case, there are some very similar programs that deserve a mention:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/http\/berryz.upnl.org\/main.php\/WebShare\/Download\/\">Berryz WebShare<\/a> &#8211; I can&#8217;t read Korean but <a href=\"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/http\/mypage.sarang.net\/tt\/tag\/WebShare\">a blog entry<\/a> for this links to MiniShare and it looks quite similar<\/li>\n<li>There was a command-line server that served exactly one file and to one person only, after which it would exit. I forget the name of the program but the author mentioned MiniShare. I don&#8217;t know if the page vanished or if I&#8217;m just too lazy to find it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can find MiniShare on the SourceForge project page MiniShare is probably my most famous project. It&#8217;s a very minimal web server that is basically used by dragging files on it and then copying the URL it generates. I have found the program very useful when sending files to someone when no proper file transfers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/http\/kometbomb.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/http\/kometbomb.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/http\/kometbomb.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/http\/kometbomb.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/http\/kometbomb.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/http\/kometbomb.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/http\/kometbomb.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/http\/kometbomb.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}