Show HN: patchbay.pub – Poor man's ngrok/IFTTT/serverless

Re:Show HN: patchbay.pub – Poor man's ngrok/IFTTT/serverless by emj on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @06:03PM (#21643648)

You can send the files through the pubsub directly and just convert a stream of bytes. It is a beautiful pattern, but needs some tools to make it really easy to use (e.g. how to I metadata and bytestream to a pipe)

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Re:Show HN: patchbay.pub – Poor man's ngrok/IFTTT/serverless by anderspitman on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @06:15PM (#21643722)

Sending the actual files would probably be really slow on the free server, due to bandwidth limiting.

As for metadata, you might consider multipart/form-data, or just packing it into the query string (obviously depends on how much data you're talking about). Of course you'd probably need to write that in something other than bash.

EDIT: It's pretty easy to send form-data with curl: https://ec.haxx.se/http-multipart.html

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Re:Show HN: patchbay.pub – Poor man's ngrok/IFTTT/serverless by emj on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @05:06PM (#21652643)

Yes but it is the receiving that mess you up, if you want to use standard shell tools and just stream it. Everything can be solved by using other tools.

# preserve filename for i in a b; do gzip -9 $i; done

# does not preserve filenames while true; done curl $patchbay| mangle | gzip -9 | curl -d@- $patchbay; done

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