tusd/README.md

tusd

A dedicated server for resumable file uploads written in Go.

Sounds interesting? Get notified when it's ready: http://tus.io/

Roadmap

The goal for this code base is to come up with a good and simple solution for resumable file uploads over http.

• Defining a good http API (in progress)
• Implementing a minimal / robust server for it
• Creating an HTML5 client
• Setting up an online demo
• Integrating Amazon S3 for storage
• Creating an iOS client
• Collect feedback

After this, and based on the feedback, we will continue the development, and start to offer the software as a hosted service. All code will continue to be released as open source, there will be no bait and switch.

HTTP API

Below is the proposed HTTP API for resumable file uploading.

Prior art:

• Google Drive - Upload Files
• Resumable Media Uploads in the Google Data Protocol (deprecated)
• ResumableHttpRequestsProposal from Gears (deprecated)

POST /files

Used to create a resumable file upload. You may send parts or all of your file along with this request, but this is discouraged as you will not be able to resume the request if something goes wrong.

Request Example:

POST /files HTTP/1.1
Host: tus.example.com
Content-Length: 0
Content-Range: bytes */100
Content-Type: image/jpg

<empty body>

Response Example:

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Location: http://tus.example.com/files/123d3ebc995732b2
Content-Length: 0

The Location header returns the <fileUrl> to use for interacting with the file upload.

PUT <fileUrl>

Request Example:

PUT /files/123d3ebc995732b2 HTTP/1.1
Host: tus.example.com
Content-Length: 100
Content-Range: bytes 0-99/100

<bytes 0-99>

Response Example:

HTTP/1.1 200 Ok

HEAD <fileUrl>

GET <fileUrl>

Used to download an uploaded file.

Request:

GET /files/123d3ebc995732b2 HTTP/1.1
Host: tus.example.com

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 Ok
Content-Length: 100
Content-Type: image/jpg

[file data]

License

This project is licensed under the AGPL v3.

Copyright (C) 2013 Transloadit Limited
http://transloadit.com/

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.