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Email is actually pretty crappy for files. She should setup an https drop and get a way better experience.
by pnutjam 7y ago
Email is actually pretty crappy for files. She should setup an https drop and get a way better experience.
- anderspitman 7y agoHow would that look for assignment submissions? Something like WebDAV?
- detaro 7y agoJust a page with a form you can upload files through. You can setup something like that e.g. with Owncloud/Nextcloud. And dedicated education tools also often have it. For normal document-sized files, email is fine though too IMHO, for university stuff I never really cared which way was used.
- anderspitman 7y agoNextCloud is quite a dependency for a simple file upload.
- detaro 7y agoSure, if you just install it for that. But it's a reasonably common service (e.g. around here, many universities have it for their employees and students) with that feature.
- Const-me 7y agoI use pcloud.com for a similar problem. They have custom HTTP JSON RPC protocol, it uses POST and GET verbs. Their web site calls that one. They also have more performant TCP binary endpoints for use by native clients, with the same payload packed into custom binary format. For users, it's a web app with download and upload links.