Web-Share

Live Server: http://web-share.herokuapp.com/

Web-Share is a simple web app that allows for opening web pages from one device on another using only HTTP get methods. The idea is to open a page that registeres itself as a listener on a channel for new url open requests, and when a request comes, from another device, it will open the url from the request.

It's built on top of Mojolicious with web-sockets.

Synopsys

• On a device open: http://web-share.heroku.com/channel/demo_channel
• On a different device open: http://web-share.heroku.com/open?ch=demo_channel&url=teslamotors.com

Features

• Public and private (user defined) channels
• Allow for new tab or page replace operation

API

• GET /
  • This registeres the listener on the public channel.
• GET /channel/{user defined channel}
  • Registeres the listener on the specified channel
    • Any alphanumeric characters and "/" are alowed in the user defined channel
• GET /open
  • Sends the page open request to all listeners on a channel
  • Prameters
    • url - the requested url to open on the recieving listeners
    • ch ( optional ) - channel to send the request to
    • target ( optional ) - specifies how to open the requested url.
      • The options for target are: new_tab|iframe|replace

Issues:

• The default open requests the target new_tab, which is usually blocked on most browsers by default, or they ask the users weather to accept opening the page in a new tab. If the users accepts, new requests are ok