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Comment by Sir_Cmpwn | Hacker News Reader

My usual procedure goes something like this:

    rsync -P foobar.png personal.sircmpwn.com:/var/html/
    # "hey dude, go download http://personal.sircmpwn.com/foobar.png"

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I do this too, but I find it annoying not knowing if the file has been received and when it's safe for me to delete it.

"Did you get that file I sent you?" "Yes" "Great, thanks" $ ssh personal.sircmpwn.com rm /var/html/foobar.png

Next version I'll add the possibility to add a timespan in number of days or number of downloads before deletion. What about that?

I'd personally love a website that offered self-destructing url pointers or downloads. So, a url that redirects once to the target, that sort of thing.

You might not want to be too strict about it. I know I'll sometimes look at an attachment on the go, but not be able to download it until later when I'm at home.

I often do this and found that I often forget about it and it turns into a big mess of outdated file, so I periodically run a script in crontab that kills files older than a certain age. Works great for me.

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