S3Drive - Sharing big files issue

11:42 AM

Hi @zer0 , There are some browser tricks that we need to do in order to support bigger files. These are already included in our web client https://web.s3drive.app and haven't landed yet in the code that shares the resources. I am wondering if you can download that file using web client? We plan to unify current sharing logic and present the resources from within the web client, it's on our roadmap and can be expected ~Q3 2023: https://s3drive.canny.io/feature-requests/p/in-app-sharing (edited)

11:43 AM

Hi @Xenthys, Sorry for bothering you, but since you're familar with Discord, I am wondering if by any chance can I include multiple all posts of @zer0 (as on the attached screenshot) when creating thread like this? At the moment I've selected the first post, but I would like to include whole conversation which span multiple posts. (edited)

Hi, not possible sorry, threads are created from a single message. I haven't been much on Discord lately but support will be done in the forum channel later to avoid that kind of issue!

@zer0 If your file isn't encrypted then you can select raw S3 presigned URL option, which will create direct URL to the resource without any JS decryption logic (which needs to be improved for big files):

Tom

Hi @zer0 , There are some browser tricks that we need to do in order to support bigger files. These are already included in our web client https://web.s3drive.app and haven't landed yet in the code that shares the resources. I am wondering if you can download that file using web client? We plan to unify current sharing logic and present the resources from within the web client, it's on our roadmap and can be expected ~Q3 2023: https://s3drive.canny.io/feature-requests/p/in-app-sharing (edited)

I'll have to try the web client. Didn't try yet

Tom

@zer0 If your file isn't encrypted then you can select raw S3 presigned URL option, which will create direct URL to the resource without any JS decryption logic (which needs to be improved for big files):

I'm aware

In which case all I can say now is, sorry for the trouble, we're working hard to improve this.

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I also see the html file loads a js from another source. Which in my opinion is a privacy concern

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zer0

I also see the html file loads a js from another source. Which in my opinion is a privacy concern

Thanks for this, we'll definitely have it improved, so it's all loaded from our origin. We plan to address these issues as a part of this task which highlights other potential security issues with current sharing logic: https://s3drive.canny.io/feature-requests/p/secure-encrypted-sharing

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I can see some creative uses of the html file though. HTML emails to share files for example (edited)

zer0

I can see some creative uses of the html file though. HTML emails to share files for example (edited)

Sorry I didn't get that. Do you mean like sending this "HTML album" over e-mail?

Yea something like that. Just embed the HTML into an email or something

1:54 PM

But depending on the email client, external resources may or may not be allowed

Yep it might be tricky. We could embed everything in e-mail, but JS execution would have to happen after user explicitly clicks the link and open it in the browser anyway. Option to share via e-mail even if it means sending the nice message with the link / links is still nice feature I believe.

Yea I'm just spitballing

Nah, it's good. That's how stuff is built

If my opinion is of interest, I wouldn't bother with HTML emails as long as I can avoid it. Every email client displays HTML differently, even big companies struggle to have proper consistency, it's a mess of tables and I won't even speak about supported CSS features…

Xenthys

If my opinion is of interest, I wouldn't bother with HTML emails as long as I can avoid it. Every email client displays HTML differently, even big companies struggle to have proper consistency, it's a mess of tables and I won't even speak about supported CSS features…

Thanks for that. I still have scars after dealing with IE6/IE7 support for years and it sounds like the very last thing I would like to deal with.