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The webapp is a web server that displays a shiny interface.
## security
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* Listen only to localhost. **done**
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* Instruct the user's web browser to open an url that contains a secret
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token. This guards against other users on the same system. **done**
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(I would like to avoid passwords or other authentication methods,
it's your local system.)
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* 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**
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* 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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## interface
* list of files uploading and downloading **done**
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* button to open file browser on repo (`xdg-open $DIR`) **done**
* progress bars for each file (see [[progressbars]])
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* drag and drop to reorder
* cancel and pause
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* keep it usable w/o javascript, and accessible to blind, etc
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## other features
* there could be a UI to export a file, which would make it be served up
over http by the web app
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* Display any relevant warning messages. One is the `inotify max_user_watches`
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exceeded message.
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* possibly add a desktop file to the top of the repository that can be used
to open the webapp (rather than using the menus). Would be complicated
some by the path to git-annex sometimes needing to be hardcoded and varying
across systems, so it would need to be a symlink to `.git/annex/desktop`
which would be per-system.
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## first start **done**
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* make git repo **done**
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* generate a nice description like "joey@hostname Desktop/annex" **done**
* record repository that was made, and use it next time run **done**
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* write a pid file, to prevent more than one first-start process running
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at once **done**