Receive Large Files with Droopy
Productivity Sauce
Droopy is a simple Web server which does only one thing: it allows users to upload files to your computer. Useless, right? Wrong. When you need to receive a large file or document, Droopy can really prove its worth. Sure, others can send you a file using one of the many services or utilities that allow you to send large files, but why bother if you can just fire up Droopy and let them upload the file directly to your machine? To make Droopy work on your computer, make sure that you have Python installed on your system, download the droopy script, and make it executable using the chmod +x droopy command. That's it. In the terminal, switch to the directory with the droopy script, and start the server using the to ./droopy command. Point then your browser to http://localhost:8000, and you should see Droopy's default page. If you want to add text or an image to the page, you can do so using the -m and -p options:
./droopy -m "Upload your files here." -p ~/robot.png
You can view other available options using the ./droopy --help command.
Once Droopy is up and running, you can send your IP address to the person who wants to send a file to you. But what if you don't know your IP? Ask Droopy by clicking the Discover the address of this page link on Droopy's default page.
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Droopy , unable to use it.
I am using linux ubuntu 11.10 and my friends were using windows at that time. so could this be a problem.
Please help me if you have the answer to this querry, Thanks.
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RSS feed problem
Thanks for the detailed report. I sent it to our editor, so the problem should be fixed soon. Also, I fixed the "droppy" typo.
Kind regards,
Dmitri
Please feel free to delete earlier comment after fixing
TIA
Ed.
(Edgar D'Souza, edgar.b.dsouza at gmail.com)
RSS feed problem
http://www.linux-magazine.com/rss/feed/productivity_sauce
seem to have only a single slash after http-colon, instead of double slash? When viewing your feed in Google Reader, if I click a feed item's title to view the page, I get a _Google_ 404 error, saying: The page - www.google.co.in/www.linux-magazine.com/online/blogs/productivity_sauce_dmitri_s_open_source_blend_of_productive_computing/receive_large_files_with_droopy - does not exist. (I wanted to read the page on Droopy).
As advised in Google Reader help, I submitted the URL to your RSS feed to http://www.feedvalidator.org/ and they say it is broken "line 9, column 232: link must be a full and valid URL: http:/www.linux-magazine.com/online/blogs/productivity_sauce_dmitri_s_open_source_blend_of_productive_computing/taskpaper_web_ingenious_web_based_task_manager (10 occurrences)"
Note the single slash after http-colon. See http://www.feedvalidator.or...ss%2Ffeed%2Fproductivity_sauce for the full details.
I simply removed www.google.co.in/ from my browser's address bar to arrive at the actual page, but some of your (potential) readers won't do that; they'll just go elsewhere. I'll soon get fed up and do likewise, unsubbing from your otherwise good feed, if I have to go through extra work every time I want to read an article from your feed. Please fix the error. Thanks in advance.
Also (a separate, small issue): the code block in the article mentions "./droppy" instead of "./droopy". Since the article mentions "(D|d)roopy several times, I think this is a typo. Please check and fix.
Regards
Ed.
(Edgar D'Souza, edgar.b.dsouza at gmail.com)
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