gtsteffaniak
[request] Specify custom share URI
The current URIs generated for share links are long random-looking alphanumeric strings (file.browser/share/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx). This is great for security; preventing people from finding shares by trying out random strings as well as ensuring each one is unique, but they are difficult to manually type out/copy from one machine to another and next to impossible to remember. Especially now that they are longer than the OG filebrowser.
Sometimes it's nice to have a simple human-readable URI like '/share/workfiles' that you can remember and easily type into whatever browser you're at. I currently achieve something similar by placing individual files in a specific folder, then having Nginx bypass filebrowser and serve them if I use a path like /raw/filename.ext, but this method leaves me missing filebrowsers interface.
It would be great to be able to do this directly in filebrowser by specifying the webpath/uri a share should be located at during its creation. Perhaps with an additional permission allowing users acces to the feature, due to security implications.
agreed, this could definitely be another optional feature in 0.8.0.
But I think it should come with a really big warning label that it essentially opens the share up to anyone to access and should be password protected.
I get the desire for easy-to-remember links, but that also means easy-to-guess links for people you may not want to access it.
