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Re:FlyWeb – An API for web pages to host local web servers by espadrine on Saturday November 05, 2016 @05:36AM (#12878942)
The issue with file transfer in particular is that it is often asynchronous: you send a file from your phone, and then, you might go for lunch - outside of the LAN - or they might be off that day. You end up needing a human protocol: ask the receiver if they're ready, send it, wait for the upload. It is almost simpler to use a USB key, and certainly simpler to rely on a Dropbox-like.

I read flyweb as being part of Mozilla's IoT effort, to make it easy to convert your phone into a remote control. See for instance this video they made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ5DEGvqDb4

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Re:FlyWeb – An API for web pages to host local web servers by Symen on Saturday November 05, 2016 @06:34AM (#12879081)
Well, with some laptop lacking USB-A ports I can see FlyWeb to be more practical for simple, quick and occasional file transfers. Also, most people have cheap, very-slow USB flash drives, so transfering via the network (even wireless) could be faster for larger files.

Another thing to consider if you compare it with cloud solutions is that you don't have to find a second channel to send the shared link (which may require both person to e.g. login on their webmail, spell their email address to one another, etc).

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Re:FlyWeb – An API for web pages to host local web servers by omribahumi on Saturday November 05, 2016 @03:20PM (#12881397)
Also, Dropbox can sync over LAN https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/137
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Re:FlyWeb – An API for web pages to host local web servers by macawfish on Monday November 07, 2016 @12:13AM (#12888954)
That doesn't mean much to me:

> Dropbox needs to maintain a connection to the Internet in order to determine when to sync. To take advantage of LAN sync, all computers need to be connected to a LAN and the Internet at the same time.

Stuff like syncthing/btsync is much more radical in that you don't have to assume that the internet as we know it even exists.

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