HTTPFS2(1)

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🦋 httpfs2(1) — the manual page, but make it make sense 🦋

okay so welcome to the httpfs2 manual page bestie, pull up a chair, we're mounting a file from a http server into the filesystem and it's gonna be iconic 💅

✨ NAME ✨

httpfs2 — mount a file from a http server into the filesystem 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

httpfs2 [OPTIONS] URL FUSE-OPTIONS

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

httpfs2 is a FUSE based filesystem for mounting http or https URLS as files in the filesystem. yes, literally a whole filesystem just for one URL, she's very main character energy 👑

lowkey important: there is no notion of listable directories in http, so only a single URL can be mounted. like, one URL, no scrolling, no browsing, periodt.

and the server must be able to send byte ranges. no byte ranges, no vibe. that's the whole trick, iykyk 🔥

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -c console — attempt to use the file ior device console for output after fork. the default is /dev/console 💻
  • -f — do not fork, stay in foreground. very "i want to watch everything happen" of you 🙈
  • -t timeout — use a different timeout for connections. default is 30s ⏱️
  • URL — the url should specify the protocol as http or https, and it may specify basic authentication username and password. currently special characters like whitespace are not handled so the URL cannot contain them 😭 see a sample URL below:
http://user:password@server.com/dir/file
  • FUSE-OPTIONS — these options are passed to the FUSE library. at the very least the mount point should be specified. like, at minimum, bestie 🫶

⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

  • 0 — successfully connected to the server 🎉
  • other — failure (url parsing error, server error, FUSE setup error). some FUSE errors may happen only after the process forks so they will not be returned in exit value. yeah that's the annoying part 💀

💀 BUGS 💀

the process can be stopped by typing ^Z on the terminal which may not be desirable under some circumstances. so like, careful with the Ctrl+Z bestie, she's sensitive 🙈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
  • hmb marionraven at users.sourceforge.net
  • Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>

🌈 COPYING 🌈

free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) 🫶

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>

  • author.
and that's the whole page! go forth and mount responsibly, no cap 💜

okay bye bestie, this was the httpfs2(1) page, page source/version HTTPFS2(1) dated 09/03/2012 — stan a classic ✨💅🎀

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