Re:DuShare - a Dead simple file sharing - Would love to know...
by Dylan16807 on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @03:26AM
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It's a nice concept, sharing the file directly. Sadly it's not working here past a basic stateful firewall. Is it capable of hole punching at all? I also wonder why it loads the entire file into memory. And a final nit, fixed whitespace on the left and bottom screw up the site in a small window, and it doesn't get working scrollbars either.
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Re:DuShare - a Dead simple file sharing - Would love to know...
by mosaab_ramadan on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @03:54AM
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Hi,
Thank you for the feedback. There is a limitation in the technology used in dushare, it completely relies on UDP streaming which makes it really fast, but not firewall friendly. We are working on a potential solution (fall back to TCP transfer), to be released in the next cycle. Loading the entire file in memory before sending it is a flash-player constraint out of security concerns, it doesn't allow flash-player to manipulate files on the computer directly, no solution found to this problem yet.
and your UI problems are noted, thank you.
Re:DuShare - a Dead simple file sharing - Would love to know...
by Jabbles on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @05:43AM
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UDP? So you do your own checksums to guarantee the file isn't corrupted?
Re:DuShare - a Dead simple file sharing - Would love to know...
by Strunk on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @06:54AM
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UDP seems like a really bad idea for a filesharing solution.