The webapp is a web server that displays a shiny interface.

bugs

  • At least in chromium, clicking on the transfer pause or cancel button sometimes fails. Seen in javascript console: 500 error code from web server. This is quite likely because of how the div containing transfers is refereshed. If instead javascript was used to update the progress bar etc for transfers with json data, the buttons would work better.

interface

  • list of files uploading and downloading done
  • button to open file browser on repo (xdg-open $DIR) done
  • progress bars for each file (see progressbars) done
  • drag and drop to reorder
  • cancel, pause, and resume done
  • keep it usable w/o javascript done
  • keep it accessible to blind, etc

other features

  • there could be a UI to export a file, which would make it be served up over http by the web app
  • there could be a UI (some javascript thing) in the web browser to submit urls to the web app to be added to the annex and downloaded. See: wishlist: an "assistant" for web-browsing -- tracking the sources of the downloads
  • Display the inotify max_user_watches exceeded message. done
  • Display something sane when kqueue runs out of file descriptors.
  • allow renaming git remotes and/or setting git-annex repo descriptions
  • allow removing git remotes

first start done

  • make git repo done
  • generate a nice description like "joey@hostname Desktop/annex" done
  • record repository that was made, and use it next time run done
  • write a pid file, to prevent more than one first-start process running at once done

security acceptable/done

  • Listen only to localhost. done
  • Instruct the user's web browser to open an url that contains a secret token. This guards against other users on the same system. done (I would like to avoid passwords or other authentication methods, it's your local system.)
  • Don't pass the url with secret token directly to the web browser, as that exposes it to ps. Instead, write a html file only the user can read, that redirects to the webapp. done
  • Alternative for Linux at least would be to write a small program using GTK+ Webkit, that runs the webapp, and can know what user ran it, avoiding needing authentication.
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