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Show HN: I made a file sharing tool that encodes the files within the URL

urlfile.app

1 points by below43 a year ago · 0 comments · 1 min read

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I built this tool to transfer files using just the URL, without storing files on a server.

The file is Base64-encoded and embedded as a payload within the URL via the URI fragment (delineated by the # character) which means the file/payload shouldn't get sent to the server.

Built mainly for fun, but I have found limited use cases for it (eg. I use a shared mouse/keyboard + clipboard across multiple machines, so use this to transfer files between them; I also have found it useful for file transfers to mobiles - via Edge's URL to QR code feature).

It's really only suitable for small file transfers as you might imagine!

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