Comments on: Roll your own dropbox http://www.techfreak.net/wp/archives/2008/03/29/343/ The sometimes updated blog of Brendon. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:50:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Jim L http://www.techfreak.net/wp/archives/2008/03/29/343/#comment-3713 Jim L Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:13:42 +0000 http://www.techfreak.net/wp/archives/2008/03/29/343/#comment-3713 about a year ago I came up with a solution to do dropbox for users who are either too stupid or too lazy to actually upload the file themselves. It is a milter (built off of mimedefang, an all-in-one milter solution in perl) that detects large messages, strips out attachments and turns them into dropbox entries on a web server, and replaces the removed attachment with a URL. It worked, I thought it was pretty cool, but we never deployed it because other engineers here were afraid of the consequences of mangled our users mail (nevermind that spam filters mangle mail all the time). about a year ago I came up with a solution to do dropbox for users who are either too stupid or too lazy to actually upload the file themselves. It is a milter (built off of mimedefang, an all-in-one milter solution in perl) that detects large messages, strips out attachments and turns them into dropbox entries on a web server, and replaces the removed attachment with a URL. It worked, I thought it was pretty cool, but we never deployed it because other engineers here were afraid of the consequences of mangled our users mail (nevermind that spam filters mangle mail all the time).

]]> By: Nico http://www.techfreak.net/wp/archives/2008/03/29/343/#comment-3396 Nico Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:04:01 +0000 http://www.techfreak.net/wp/archives/2008/03/29/343/#comment-3396 Hi Brendon, I already used a script like this to upload files to AWS but I had a problem since boto Python API has changed :( http://toxicsoftware.com/s3_uploader/ So, I would be happy to find a new automator script... I keep on eye on your blog in order to see your code :) Hi Brendon,
I already used a script like this to upload files to AWS but I had a problem since boto Python API has changed :(
http://toxicsoftware.com/s3_uploader/
So, I would be happy to find a new automator script… I keep on eye on your blog in order to see your code :)

]]> By: Brendon http://www.techfreak.net/wp/archives/2008/03/29/343/#comment-2980 Brendon Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:06:04 +0000 http://www.techfreak.net/wp/archives/2008/03/29/343/#comment-2980 BTW, I discovered that the <a href="http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/uploadtoftp.html" rel="nofollow">Upload to FTP Automator action</a> makes it easy to convert this to use your own website. BTW, I discovered that the Upload to FTP Automator action makes it easy to convert this to use your own website.

]]> By: Brendon http://www.techfreak.net/wp/archives/2008/03/29/343/#comment-2977 Brendon Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:18:24 +0000 http://www.techfreak.net/wp/archives/2008/03/29/343/#comment-2977 Yeah, I might just switch mine over to use ftp, or WebDAV, or some custom cgi uploader. I feel weird paying Amazon for file storage, when I've already paid for it elsewhere. That said, S3 is probably surprisingly cheap for personal use on stuff like this. I bet I'd probably pay $1/year for my usage patterns on it. I think my account is at $.06 right now, and it won't change for a long time because I'm still hundreds and sometimes thousands of units below the next incremental charge. If I started dropping GB sized files, that would change much faster, but I've noticed I tend to stick below 100MB/file when I do work like this. My favorite part on the whole project was rediscovering how Automator workflows saved as applications work. That's just a simple way to make droplets. It's something I was trying to remember how to do a couple weeks back, and was going down a more complicated route of pipes and mountpoints and loopbacks and gummy bears and... Yeah, I might just switch mine over to use ftp, or WebDAV, or some custom cgi uploader. I feel weird paying Amazon for file storage, when I’ve already paid for it elsewhere.

That said, S3 is probably surprisingly cheap for personal use on stuff like this. I bet I’d probably pay $1/year for my usage patterns on it. I think my account is at $.06 right now, and it won’t change for a long time because I’m still hundreds and sometimes thousands of units below the next incremental charge. If I started dropping GB sized files, that would change much faster, but I’ve noticed I tend to stick below 100MB/file when I do work like this.

My favorite part on the whole project was rediscovering how Automator workflows saved as applications work. That’s just a simple way to make droplets. It’s something I was trying to remember how to do a couple weeks back, and was going down a more complicated route of pipes and mountpoints and loopbacks and gummy bears and…

]]> By: Danny http://www.techfreak.net/wp/archives/2008/03/29/343/#comment-2975 Danny Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:09:45 +0000 http://www.techfreak.net/wp/archives/2008/03/29/343/#comment-2975 Cool idea. I may have to roll one that uses my own web server (yes, I'm cheap). Cool idea. I may have to roll one that uses my own web server (yes, I’m cheap).

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