I’m here for awhile
I made this on mobile, and one monolithic file was how I can quickly iterate and test each feature.
Every time I added a new feature I had to test it’s function to test if it was properly implemented and exactly what I wanted. Keeping it all one file means I could copy paste it into the terminal. Running it overwrites all the home directory instantly with all my updates across the python, db, html, css.
Full disclosure. This was created with the help of many different models over the past month two months!
If you don’t want to download a file here is the viewable source.
I’ve made a cleaned up version found here
Improvements
prompt for admin password on boot
admin panel that allows control for deleting posts (finiky but functional)
pages: 15 posts per page now…this greatly reduces load on server.
basic sorting functions
cleaned up creating posts and new ‘torums’ so the home page isn’t so messy.
Ok,
Here is a more polished version with MIT license.
Improvements
-User counts
-Connection Status Indicator
-Ability to turn on persistent rooms. By default, the server only relays in real time. /persist turns on chat logs. The server then stores encrypted messages and users can chat asynchronously.
-Rotating onion address and keeping existing onion now work correctly. If you rotate a onion address, since encryption keys are partially derived from the onion address, the client will be unable to decrypt messages even if the same password is used.
-filter command can be used to bootstrap private rooms in a scenario where multiple people want to use the same server, yet chat privately. All it does is filter out messages that it can’t decrypt because it has the wrong password.
-Got rid of ncurses set up menus to slim down the script a bit.
-Removed redundant server manager commands and now only list two. Quit and Quit and Flush (this deletes everything in the server directory except persistent chat logs if they were turned on)
New UI
Example of Encrypted Chat Logs on Server Side
I noticed some of my devices during testing wouldn’t connect without hosting a server in a seperate instance. I’m not sure why this is happening but if you can’t connect, try to host a server and then connect to another host. This seemed to fix the issue.
That’s a pretty big sandbox if you can host a web application from it though. It’s really not that restricted but there are compatibility issues so you find your self rebuilding primitives to make things work.
I think the next think I want to make is a notes/word processing web app. There is a pretty good use case to be to able to connect and process documents from a private server on any machine.
What a weird turn of events this is the festival that scammed everyone?
I stumbled upon it by by accident when trying to share. I remembered file.io was a quick account free way to share a files but now when you upload limewire takes over.
Thankyou that’s really helpful 👍
Yes termux is the webserver here and the client is the web browser now. This simplifies the use case scenario alot since most devices have a browser.
This is exactly why I started tinkering with termux…lots of old devices that I want to put to use that just collect dust.
I thought about it but it’s not worth tieing accounts together to me and I don’t wanna make throwaway accounts just to share.
To small of scale I’m just messing around is the short answer.
Usage is commented at the start of the script. Just save it, chmod, run it and it spins it self right up.
What are the downsides of sharing code with no license?
Cloudflared CLI for reverse proxy is as dummy proof as hosting a hidden onion site over Tor. I like it’s simplicity but I know I’m relying on a non free network.
Here is the server manager in termux.
Yeah, tor is already encrypting between each node and since both clients are connecting to the rendezvous point inside of the Tor network it should already theoretically be encrypted E2E… The other crypto is just in case that’s not true… why not add other layers of encryption if you can.
No I don’t use it it’s kinda just a lil hobby. Nice to know I can depoly worldwide anonymous coms from my pocket though.
I have better more usable methods
The install script contains all the pieces needed to be the host server or just a client. Because termux allows you to run multiple sessions, if you are the host, you have to run the server in one session and then connect in a different session.
What’s not shown in the screen shot is that if you choose to host, a onion address is generated. This is how other clients connect.
Ok this is still super early but it’s working on the few devices I tried with a fresh install of termux.
Yes
Working on a slightly more polished version. I can release soon.
Look at the edits, they have both been broken apart into standalone projects broken down into all their parts.
Expanded source for pi version here
Expanded source code for termux version here.