[Owncloud] File upload

[Thomas Müller]

Am Donnerstag, dem 09.08.2012 um 10:54 schrieb Jan-Christoph Borchardt:
> Exactly that is the reason why for publicly shared stuff, there should
> never be a token but rather the address should look like
> owncloudprovider.com/username/folder/ (or filename)
>

That's what I want to have!
Can we make it for OC5? Maybe not I guess.

> The counter-argument, and reason why it is not so, is (as I
> understand) that other shared files could be guessable. This is not
> really important as a) no it’s not (at least not easily) b) the files
> are shared publicly anyway c) dropbox does it exactly like that.
>

As long as we can separate upload from download I see no issues.
Because files uploaded by a non-ownCloud user are not necessarily public for download by everybody else.

Tom
 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Thomas Müller <thomas.mueller at tmit.eu> wrote:
> > Can we add support for an "easy to remember" URL?
> >
> > I am thinking of the case that I want somebody upload file to my cloud agile I am not online. (E.g. talking on the phone while on travel)
> >
> > I cannot remember a link with a random token inside. But that I can:
> > http://cloud.domain.tld/upload/thomas
> >
> > Thx
> >
> > Jan-Christoph Borchardt <hey at jancborchardt.net> schrieb:
> >
> >>The same suggestion came up last year, as the webmaster of my
> >>university mentioned that would be a great thing to have.
> >>I discussed it with Michael and we decided it would be best to couple
> >>it with sharing.
> >>
> >>It would simply add a checkbox »allow upload« to the public part of
> >>the sharing dropdown. With that, everyone who has the link for that
> >>folder can upload into it, no matter if they have ownCloud or not.
> >>
> >>It will look like a shared folder does now, except that the New/Upload
> >>button is present.
> >>As far as file modification goes, people with the link (not on
> >>ownCloud) can only upload and modify files they themselves uploaded –
> >>this includes move (into subfolders), edit and deletion, for example
> >>when a file was uploaded mistakenly.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>[Wiki entry for reference: »enable people (not on ownCloud) to upload
> >>files when you give them a specific link (to a public folder for
> >>example)«, from Sharing on https://gitorious.org/owncloud/pages/Home ]
> >>
> >>
> >>On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Michael Grosser
> >><owncloud at seetheprogress.net> wrote:
> >>> I would say profile page is bad.
> >>> Using usernames is bad too.
> >>> The suggestion I would make is using the sharing functionality.
> >>> We could just provide another sharing option. (aka writeaccess)
> >>> So you can share a folder link (pretty secure - token etc.) and give
> >>> write access. If you don't want it anymore just edit the sharing
> >>> permissions and done.
> >>>
> >>> Some additional suddestion for sharing (just came to my mind) an
> >>> overview table on what is shared with what permission and an easy way
> >>> to edit the permissions or delete the share. I know it's in the
> >>> database, but some sort of interface would be cool. So you don't have
> >>> to dig through all your folders etc.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers Michael
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Christian van de Weyer
> >>> <christian at vandeweyer.de> wrote:
> >>>> Hello Tom,
> >>>>
> >>>> I am just an ordinary user (and new to oC).
> >>>> This is exactly what I need for my customers:
> >>>>
> >>>> the feature to allow file upload to a user space by somebody else
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I can imagine, that - if implemented in a proper way - could be a „killer
> >>>> feature” on the market.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Many Greetings and thanks for the work you (all) put in oC!
> >>>> _____________________
> >>>> Christian van de Weyer
> >>>>
> >>>> 90768 Fürth
> >>>> christian at vandeweyer.de
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Am 06.08.2012 um 12:06 schrieb Thomas Müller:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I recently got feedback from one of our users, who showed some interest
> >>>> in the feature to allow file upload to a user space by somebody else.
> >>>>
> >>>> This topic has been discussed on this ticket:
> >>>> http://bugs.owncloud.org/thebuggenie/owncloud/issues/oc-190
> >>>>
> >>>> Some basic implementation can be found here (worked for OC3):
> >>>> https://gitorious.org/my-owncloud-apps/file_drop
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm interested in your opinion on this feature:
> >>>> - Is it something we'd like to have as an core app like e.g. contacts or is
> >>>> it something for the appstore?
> >>>>
> >>>> - Do we want to merge the feature with some kind of general user page?
> >>>>  (Display profile pic, name email ....)
> >>>>
> >>>> - The current implementation requires the external user to enter the user
> >>>> name to where the file should be uploaded.
> >>>>  From an UX point of view this is bad - from a security point of view it
> >>>> might be better than a user page which could be crawled by bots.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> THX,
> >>>>
> >>>> Tom
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