works, usually written, of unknown authorship or of doubtful origin

example_client.py is the current reference implementation of the "native" client protocol. It takes local filesystem paths as arguments, and uploads each to ptpb.io (a public deployment of apocrypha).

$ sha256sum test.png test.webm
d2f1543b82d8219b0c2086224339bf503211a221a2ec55a9a39f23bf8a1e2481  test.png
ba0f0e2ba50ccea0a80f114d0e0a40595cb2922bdf01f00ce7134405b23a2302  test.webm
$ python test/example_client.py test.png test.webm
test.png https://ptpb.io:667/d2f1
test.webm https://ptpb.io:667/ba0f

Verify that apocrypha is able to regurgitate these:

$ curl -s -D/dev/stderr https://ptpb.io:667/d2f1.png | sha256sum
HTTP/1.1 200
transfer-encoding: chunked
content-type: image/png

d2f1543b82d8219b0c2086224339bf503211a221a2ec55a9a39f23bf8a1e2481  -
$ curl -s -D/dev/stderr https://ptpb.io:667/ba0f.webm | sha256sum
HTTP/1.1 200
transfer-encoding: chunked
content-type: video/webm

ba0f0e2ba50ccea0a80f114d0e0a40595cb2922bdf01f00ce7134405b23a2302  -

The content-type feature makes apocrypha suitable for presenting common media types (plaintext, html, video, etc..) in web browsers.

apocrypha has a concept of a "prefix_length", specified by the client. An uploaded file is addressable by both the full 64 character sha256 hex digest and a prefix of that hex digest of length exactly equal to the "prefix_length" specified at upload time.