pad📎

Simple web-based scratch pad sharer. Written in zig, backed by sqlite. No JS in client. Supports fixed number of pad views and pads that self delete after a creator-defined time.

run locally📎

PAD_DB=$HOME/pad.db zig build run

tests📎

./if.sh

curl usage📎

As the application is completely serverside, no js, it can be used fairly easily with curl.

login:

curl -v -c /tmp/pad.cookies -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
  -d 'username=user' -d 'password=pass' \
  localhost:8000/login

get pad admin page:

curl -v -b /tmp/pad.cookies -d 'username=user' -d 'password=pass' localhost:8000/a

get anonymous pad:

curl localhost:8000/p/asdf

create password protected pad:

export PAD_TEST_NOW="$(date +%s)"
export PAD_TEST_CONTENT="my test pad\n"
curl -v -b /tmp/pad.cookies -d "slug=test-$PAD_NOW" -d "content=$PAD_TEST_CONTENT" -d 'username=testpaduser' -d 'password=testpadpass' -d 'views_left=3' localhost:8000/newpad
# 401
curl -v -b /tmp/pad.cookies "localhost:8000/p/test-$PAD_NOW"
# 200
curl -v -b /tmp/pad.cookies -u 'testpaduser:testpadpass' "localhost:8000/p/test-$PAD_NOW"
# 200
curl -v -b /tmp/pad.cookies -u 'testpaduser:testpadpass' "localhost:8000/p/test-$PAD_NOW"
# 200
curl -v -b /tmp/pad.cookies -u 'testpaduser:testpadpass' "localhost:8000/p/test-$PAD_NOW"
# 404
curl -v -b /tmp/pad.cookies -u 'testpaduser:testpadpass' "localhost:8000/p/test-$PAD_NOW"

create base64 of non-text content and fetch it back to a file

export PAD_TEST_NOW="$(date +%s)"
curl -v -b /tmp/pad.cookies -d "slug=test-$PAD_NOW" --data-urlencode content@my_b64_file localhost:8000/newpad