I’ve been looking for a fancy ajax file manager for quite some time now, but it’s been hard so far to get a free viable alternative to plain old ftp. C’mon guys I think it could be a good time to come up with something better than the File Transfer Protocol, with all its quirks and odd behaviours. But you’ll all realize this has been the dawn of a new era: everybody’s using rapidshare these days, or one of its very good alternatives (Megaupload, 4shared and filefactory, to name a few). I think an ajax file manager would be a nice addiction to those of you guys owning personal servers and not willing to share their private files with the world.
Enters Relay.
Relay is a wonderful piece of ajax code written with the aid of the prototype ajax toolkit.
Relay is still in beta, but it does a wonderful job of uploading / downloading and managing files on your private server, let’s check out some of its features:
And I can tell you everything works smoothly for a beta, and it’s very usable too.
Wanna try out a live demo?
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I created an interesting cgi overload which allowed relay to get file but stopped users getting to the directory via their browsers. The .htaccess line was:
“Redirect index.html ../../error docs/403.php”
The .htaccess file was located in the users root folder which stopped access to all subfolders as well. I just happened to stumble accross it accidently when messing around myself!
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If you only want your users to email files from a certain address (local) for example no_reply@site.com, you can edit the relay.html file as shown below on line 145:
Basically you just hide the email from input and remove its layout table.
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It really doesn’t work for most people out of the box and requires an in depth knowledge of PHP to *hack* it into operation. Still very buggy and not much support from the developers…