Share files with Woof

Update: Works with Dolphin and Konqueror

This service menu starts a webserver that serves the selected file or folder. The served files are easely downloaded with a webbrowser. After the transfer the program exits. This is a very convenient way to share files with friends. The backend is the excellent program Woof.


Usage:
Right click on file or folder and select "Actions" --> "Send with Woof"

This will result in the file or folder being served on your computers Ip-address and port number 8080. for example http://192.168.1.100:8080. Just point a browser to this address. After the file has been served woof exits. If you are behind a router or firewall the port 8080 have to be forwarded to your computer. Folders will be served in the .tar.gz format.

Install
There are files for Konq and Dolph in the package, use the appropriate

Konqueror:
copy "woof" and "send_with_woof.desktop" to ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/

make the files executable. ex. "chmod +x woof"

restart Konqueror

Dolphin

copy "woof" and "send_with_woof.desktop" to ~/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus

make the files executable. ex. "chmod +x woof"

restart Dolphin

If dolphin whines that it can't find the application edit the path in "send_with_woof.desktop" file from ~/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus to
/home/yourusername/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus

(If you put woof in any other directory you need to edit the path to the executable in the "send_with_woof.desktop" file)

Some comments
Woof is written by Simon Budig. With this service menu comes a modified version of Woof. I have only made some very, very limited modifications to allow it to work with Kdialog. The original can be found at:

http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html

If you want to use Woof from the command line I recommend that you download the original and put it in your $PATH. The bundled version of Woof will work from the command line but will throw up notifications through kdialog.

Woof is released under GPL version 2.