lift is a CLI client interface to airlift-server. It takes a filename as an
argument and uploads the server at the configured host, which is stored as a
JSON file in an OS-dependent location (~/.airlift on POSIX,
%LOCALAPPDATA%\airlift\airlift_config on Windows). These may also be
configured by the client.
If the server requires a password, the client will prompt for it and it will be saved in a secure system-dependent fashion:
- OS X: Keychain
- Windows: encrypted in conf file using current user info
- Linux: I'm not really sure so I just used Twofish
Binaries will be made available for common platforms. To build it yourself,
- Install Go
- Assuming
GOPATHis set up,$ go installshould do it if you have a sane build environment. This client uses cgo, so there may be some platform-specific issues to take into consideration.
If on Windows, set CC to the name of your MinGW32 compiler if needed. If the
linker complains, you will need to add the location of crypt32.lib (or
libcrypt32.a) to the linker path.
Since Go doesn't officially support Cygwin, you have to use MinGW32 to compile. You don't have to install MinGW32, though, just get the MinGW32 gcc suite for your architecture from the Cygwin installer and compile with either
$ CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc go build
for 64-bit, or whatever the equivalent for 32-bit is.
Note that since the Windows versions of the Go packages use all Windows APIs, it won't understand anything Cygwin-specific such as symbolic links and the like.
When you use it for the first time, you'll need to set up a host. The following are equivalent:
$ lift -h i.example.com -p 80
$ lift -a http://i.example.com
$ lift -a http://i.example.com:80
If the server requires a password, it will be prompted for:
$ lift "today's lunch.jpg"
Server returned error: password required
You'll need a new password. If the request is successful,
it will be saved in the OS X Keychain.
Password:
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http://i.example.com/dGp9
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