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a permenant (accurate) link to a file
does anybody know how to place a link that is not based on the filename?
If there could be a query link according to the hash of the file, or some other unique identification, it would be useful for me.
names can be renamed. if I want to keep a list of files, I'd want the list to always be valid. (unless the user decides to take the file offline - deletes from public)
the question is basically if I can search based on the file's hash and how to get the file's hash.
If there could be a query link according to the hash of the file, or some other unique identification, it would be useful for me.
names can be renamed. if I want to keep a list of files, I'd want the list to always be valid. (unless the user decides to take the file offline - deletes from public)
the question is basically if I can search based on the file's hash and how to get the file's hash.
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Inappropriate?i guess the complete pathname (url) is the only valid id/key to a wuala object for userland, otherwise unc pathname support would need an intermediate translation layer or something like that...
also wuala http links reference the objects as filenames
you can post/send other people http://wua.la/username/foldername/obj... urls, and typing that into a browser or clicking it and having a wuala client installed on the os makes that clickable and wuala client navigates to that object....
what i was thinking about in the past, that maybe its time for wuala to register an own url type or what those protocol headers like http:// udp:// news:// chat: about: and so on are called in the operating-system worlds...
i dont know if that idea would actually be the best one, but sometimes there are big problems for example in corporate (http-cached sites) environments, as a http server doesnt handle these localhost urls properly without filter/regex additions and so on....
for example
http://wua.la/Luzius/Documents/Wuala/... entered in a webbrowser gives me some trouble at some places i run a wuala client, as the http-proxies there wont handle the redirection to the local http-server that comes with the wuala client and that the wua.la website tries to tigger and redirects to....
for example it ends/redirects to localhost urls like this:
http://127.0.0.1:12345/openfile?file=...
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Inappropriate?one more remark / security related question about these permanent/accurate object-urls:
as wualas current object-id model is filename-based, it could be of a real security risk/problem for people who share/navigate links to their secret/private stuff with the help of the wua.la website http-redirector
as all the files are being url-ified similar to
http://wua.la/yourcrazyusername/yours...
so "everybody" and their brother (wuala-website admins, hoster(amazon-s3 people?) staff, it-technicians, your local/corporate proxy-admins and so on....) who can either view/access wua.la website logfiles, sniff/log/track plaintext http-traffic between wuala-clients/browsers and wuala-servers could still know about your filenames and what you probably/maybe doing with wuala....
we could really need some sort of anonymizing/hashing/crypted object-ids here and a better means of linking to wuala-objects (maybe still http://wua.la/ urls but somehow anonymized/obscured/obfuscated , urls with a timeout/time-limited validity and so on....
no more cleartext for linking to wuala objects would be great. -
Inappropriate?hmm, yes, if it's public then I guess everyone can see the file names.
on a related note, a little question: what happens if I upload a file, which gets encrypted, to a private folder, later, I move it to a public folder, (to my understanding now the key is known to all), and later, I move it back to a private or friends folder.
Does the file get re-encrypted? Is it now possible for someone to get access to the file in the private folder because s/he knows the key? If they manage to download it, (maybe using another application) can they open it with the key that was public one time?
I guess there are alot of these security based questions. it would be nice to have a wiki or a readme that answers them. (how things work in the wuala network)
Thanks. If anyone knows, please write your note. many thanks
I’m happy
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Inappropriate?so , just to ping this forum thread,
any news on this? I am asking for a hash string that identifies a file.
It can be created on upload (I guess you already use it internally).
I want to be able to query based on this hash, making sure I arrive at the correct file.
Besides that, you know that links on the web sometimes fail, a server is down, or the site changed its web framework to be more dynamic, and your link now points to 404.
in a p2p network, this becomes an advantage, links don't go bad -> if the file is still on the network public folders, then it can always be found.
a url can be something like wuala://and-the-long-hash-value (32 chars will be enough I guess)
and this is a building block in case you some day decide to build a web on top of wuala.
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Inappropriate?I already suggested the use of Magnet URIs, that would provide exactly what you are describing...
I guess it's just a question of what they are doing/focussing at the moment (it seems they rather work on weekends or at night... :D), but I hope they implement something like that in the not-too-distant future (like the much discussed Web-Access feature) -
Inappropriate?or the languages... lol...
cant be that hard to see that everybody and their brother are doing community based stuff, even now microsoft is trying to make some use of the community-driven methods as of lately.
still wondering how hard it is to let the users translate your strings. hrhr... simply let some tens or hundred users translate the same language, and you will get statistically correct translations or some framework which u can actually use and get better results than even automated translations on the web, googlelanguagetools and so on...
still, after many months, we're still sticking with german and english only.
sucks to be nongerman and nonenglish i guess...
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I’m fscking amused
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Inappropriate?Äm, Wuala is currently being translated to portugese by some users from the community as a test how it works out, it's still an ALPHA software and you are kinda offtopic + trolling around here...
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