atsuya / tensoid

sendoid clone using websocket

tensoid: sendoid without flash

tensoid is a technical attempt to do what http://sendoid.com/ does without flash.

How to Install

Clone this git repo and do npm install. The usual node stuff.

How to Use

Access tendoid and drag and drop some file, and you'll get an URL. Tell this URL to someone you want to share the file with. Make sure you are still on the page when the someone opens the URL. That initiates a file transfer from your browser to the someone's browser in realtime.

Web Browsers

tensoid works on Chrome and Firefox (6 and probably later). I'm using webkit-prefixed functions :p I'm planning to make it work with decent web browsers.

Demo

To run your own tensoid, just git clone this repository and run:

$ node app.js

Modify config.js to fit it to your environment.

Or try running demo at http://tensoid.pictshare.me.

Notes

Technically, tensoid does not do exactly how sendoid does its file transfer. Sendoid uses flash and flash actually allows P2P communications among web browsers, but tensoid is sending a chunk to server and the server sends it to receiver.

Other thing is a name of file downloaded. At the moment, it tries to download with some weird name without file extension. You should rename the name, especially the file extension to use it with appropriate application.

Credits

Sendoid for a procedure to initiate file transfer (set file, get url, and let receiver access it).

License

tensoid is licensed under the MIT license.

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2011 Atsuya Takagi [email protected]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.