2012-05-27 01:11:19 +00:00
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The webapp is a web server that displays a shiny interface.
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## security
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2012-07-26 09:21:05 +00:00
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* Listen only to localhost. **done**
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2012-05-27 01:11:19 +00:00
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* Instruct the user's web browser to open an url that contains a secret
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2012-07-26 09:21:05 +00:00
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token. This guards against other users on the same system. **done**
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2012-07-26 09:22:17 +00:00
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(I would like to avoid passwords or other authentication methods,
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it's your local system.)
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2012-07-26 17:47:41 +00:00
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* Don't pass the url with secret token directly to the web browser,
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as that exposes it to `ps`. Instead, write a html file only the user can read,
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that redirects to the webapp. **done**
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2012-05-31 19:48:26 +00:00
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* Alternative for Linux at least would be to write a small program using
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GTK+ Webkit, that runs the webapp, and can know what user ran it, avoiding
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needing authentication.
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2012-05-27 01:11:19 +00:00
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## interface
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* list of files uploading and downloading
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* progress bars for each file
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* drag and drop to reorder
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* cancel and pause
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2012-05-29 23:17:38 +00:00
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* keep it usable w/o javascript, and accessible to blind, etc
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2012-05-27 01:11:19 +00:00
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2012-05-31 19:28:04 +00:00
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## other features
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* there could be a UI to export a file, which would make it be served up
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over http by the web app
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2012-06-06 20:54:39 +00:00
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* Display any relevant warning messages. One is the `inotify max_user_watches`
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2012-07-27 01:32:08 +00:00
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exceeded message. Need to lift such messages into DaemonStatus
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so the WebApp can include them in its rendering of DaemonStatus.
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2012-05-31 19:28:04 +00:00
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2012-05-27 01:11:19 +00:00
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## implementation
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2012-07-26 15:53:18 +00:00
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* perhaps define a custom `errorHandler`, which could avoid the potential
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2012-07-27 04:03:55 +00:00
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of leaking auth tokens on error pages. Or make the test suite test for
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leakage.
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2012-07-26 15:53:18 +00:00
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* possibly lose the ugly auth= token past the first page,
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and use a client-side session. It could be encrypted using the token
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as the `encryptKey`. Note: Would need to set the session duration
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to infinite (how?)
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2012-07-27 01:40:24 +00:00
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* When long polling fails, retry a time or two, and then give up, and
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either display an error message, or, possibly, close the browser window.
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(Currently the display just stops updating.)
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