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Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely

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816 points tosh | 1 comments | 17 Aug 24 16:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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hoppyhoppy2 ◴[17 Aug 24 17:47 UTC] No.41276373[source]▶
A similar project with some nice features that I use is croc: https://github.com/schollz/croc
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Klathmon ◴[17 Aug 24 20:18 UTC] No.41277619[source]▶
I've used https://file.pizza a bunch before, only because of the memorable name
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foresto ◴[17 Aug 24 21:57 UTC] No.41278325[source]▶
It was useless for large files when I tried it, at least on Firefox. It seemed to be trying to pull the entire file into RAM.
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bootlegbilly ◴[17 Aug 24 22:52 UTC] No.41278684[source]▶
As someone who's been working on a file upload service for a while, this is the only real way to download very large files on Firefox.

The file system access API is a great way to write chunks of a file at a gime, but for now Firefox doesn't support it

https://wicg.github.io/file-system-access/ https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#native-file-s...

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1. ric2b ◴[24 Aug 24 19:56 UTC] No.41341003[source]▶
Firefox can definitely download very large files with no problem, JS doesn't even need to be involved, downloading a file is ancient browser functionality.

The server sends an application/octet-stream response and a few other headers and it works.