Xpra: Ticket #1376: html5 users should be allowed to upload/download

Upload/download any type of file from html5 interface is not possible for the time being.

At this time of writing only pdf printing is possible.

Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:46:52 GMT - Antoine Martin: status changed; milestone set

status changed from new to assigned
milestone set to 2.1

Thu, 23 Mar 2017 08:24:31 GMT - Antoine Martin:

Added download support in r15360 + r15361 + r15363 + r15364, including options on the connect dialog page, we now fallback to downloading the PDF if the print popup is blocked. I can trigger a download using:

xpra control :10 send-file "/home/antoine/Downloads/changeset_15139.diff"

Also added the ability to save print jobs on the server using XPRA_SAVE_PRINT_JOBS=/some/path/ in r15362. (useful for comparing)

Still TODO: add a GUI toolbar we can click on, this can be used for an upload button, we could also show a download button if the user wants to make the download a manual process, same for clipboard (#1461) which could use an indicator and run fully synchronously (without necessarily needing to sync with the PRIMARY selection). Same for printing: we can show the document to print using a button in that toolbar.

Noticed that the HTML5 code never got updated for chunked transfers (#1026), would be nice to add.

Upload links:

get filename
Convert file input to Blob
File APIs: we may want to support uploading multiple files at once, drag and drop would be cool (no need for toolbar!)
we can get the mimetype from blob.type

Fri, 24 Mar 2017 05:41:56 GMT - Antoine Martin: owner, status changed

owner changed from Antoine Martin to ERIC GRAMMATICO
status changed from assigned to new

Support for uploading files added in r15370. The toolbar functionality has been moved to a new ticket: #1471.

To test:

start a server:

xpra start --bind-tcp=0.0.0.0: --no-daemon --open-files=yes

(with older versions, "open-files" can only be set through the /etc/xpra/conf.d/15_file_transfers.conf - not setting this option will allow the file to be uploaded, but it will not be opened)

open the html5 client in a browser, ie:
```
xdg-open http://localhost:14500/
```

Then you can just open a file manager and drop any file onto the html5 client, and it will magically appear there. (after the upload, it will be opened using the default application, which is "xdg-open" on Linux)

@ERIC GRAMMATICO: to test, you need the latest html5 client code, which you can download from svn here: http://xpra.org/svn/Xpra/trunk/src/html5/, this should work with any recent version of the xpra server. (for testing downloads, see comment:2)

Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:17:28 GMT - ERIC GRAMMATICO: status changed; resolution set

status changed from new to closed
resolution set to fixed

Works ! Thanks !

Sat, 23 Jan 2021 05:22:33 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/1376