Possibility of a web frontend?

Asked by Jon Gjengset

It would be great to facilitate the development of a web frontend.
This would require either:
 1) A web frontend written specifically to work with a Syncany repo
or
 2) A CLI syncany client or daemon that would download a decrypted version of a repo to a server, and then sharing this folder with any web server that supports directory listing (i.e. no specialized web client needed).

What do you think?

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Philipp C. Heckel (binwiederhier) said :
#1

Hi Jonhoo,

that'd be great and it's also what I have in mind for the long term plan. I corresponds with a blueprint [1] and a bug report [2]. For the web interface, you might want to contact thebastl [3,4] since he's about to start working on that.

It's particularly important that all clients use the same API to communicate with Syncany, so that we can use the same calls for the web interface, the CLI and the Android/iPhone/etc. clients.

Cheers,
Philipp

[1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/syncany/+spec/daemonize-core
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/syncany/+bug/793955
[3] https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team/+member/bastl
[4] "thebastl" on IRC/Freenode

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Jon Gjengset (jonhoo) said :
#2

Hi Philipp,

Great to see that this has already been given some though!
As mentioned, as long as we get a CLI client, a read-only web client is already done simply by pointing Apache (or any other web server) to the folder you want web-accessible, possibly with HTTP Basic authentication for a minimal layer of security.. Of course, this would not do uploads, versioning or anything fancy, but would at least provide access to your files if you're working from a computer without Syncany...

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bastl (bastl) said :
#3

Hi Jonhoo,
i'm aiming for a fancy version, with versioning, file reading and writing... (at least all the basics that dropbox is offering too)
and i would like to have the possibility to create repos with filequota on my server too via webinterface.
I will submit a blueprint within the next week and hopefully start working on it (using Rails or PHPCake. I prefer Rails) too.

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Philipp C. Heckel (binwiederhier) said :
#4

Hi guys,

It would be great to have a very slim version targeted at
android/iphone/other phones.

Cheers,
Philipp

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