gfile

GFile

gfile is a WebRTC based file exchange software.

It allows to share a file directly between two computers, without the need of a third party.

Note

This project is still in its early stage.

Usage

Sender

gfile send --file filename

• Run the command
• A base64 encoded SDP will appear, send it to the remote client
• Follow the instructions to send the client's SDP to your process
• The file transfer should start

Receiver

# SDP being the base64 SDP gotten from the other client
echo "$SDP" | gfile receive -o filename

• Pipe the other client's SDP to gfile
• A base64 encoded SDP will appear, send it to the remote client
• The file transfer should start

Benchmark

gfile is able to benchmark the network speed between 2 clients (1 master and 1 slave) with the bench command. For detailed instructions, see Sender and Receiver instructions.

# Run as 'master'
gfile bench -m

# Run as 'slave'
echo "$SDP" |  gfile bench

Web Interface

A web interface is being developed via WebAssembly. It is currently not working.

Debug

In order to obtain a more verbose output, it is possible to define the logging level via the GFILE_LOG environment variable.

Example: export GFILE_LOG="TRACE" See function setupLogger in main.go for more information

Contributors

• Antoine Baché (https://github.com/Antonito) Original author

Special thanks to Sean DuBois for his help with pion/webrtc and Yutaka Takeda for his work on pion/sctp