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Hypo

Hypo

This is hypo. Hypo is supposed to be an easy way to share/store code snippets and other files.

Usage

Once setup it will not show much of anything, first you'll have to upload something.

Uploading

Uploading is done with the PUT HTTP method. An example with curl: 

# curl --upload-file README.org http://yourserver.example.com/ 2>/dev/null
http://yourserver.example.com/abcdef1

After uploading a file to the server it will respond with the url of your newly uploaded file. If you browse to this URL using your favorite browser you will find a page showing the file. For text files it will try to provide some syntax highlighting, for certain types of images (currently jpg, png and gif) it will show the image.

If Hypo doens't know what kind of file you're uploading it will default to treating it as a text file.

Viewing

All files can be viewed (from, for example, your web browser) in three different ways. The regularly, raw and as download.

The regular way shows a web page with the file either syntax highlighted using pygments or (in case it is an image) with the image shown on the page. This is viewed by using the URL printed after upload has completed. For example: 

http://yourserver.example.com/abcdef1

The raw view is just the file, saving this file is the same as downloading it. This is viewed by prefixing the last part of the URL with raw/. For example: 

http://yourserver.example.com/raw/abcdef1

The download view is the same as the raw view except that the Content-Disposition header has been set to attachment. This causes a download dialog to show up instead of your browser trying to render it. This ir viewed by prefixing the last part of the URL with dl/. For example: 

http://yourserver.example.com/dl/abcdef1

Deleting

After you have uploaded a file you can delete it again by using the DELETE HTTP method. An example with curl: 

# curl -XDELETE http://yourserver.example.com/abcdef1
None

There is currently no way to authenticate yourself with the server, so anyone can delete (also post) files. Of course they would first have to know the URL to send the delete to.

Clients

Hypo tries to stay simple to work with, at least on the client-side. However, some clients may make things easier. Currently there is only the (incomplete) Emacs client.