I stumbled across a python script woof, or Web Offer One File, the other day in the typical serendipity of the web.

In short, running the python script on a file will start a simple webserver and produce an address you can pass on to a friend in place of emailing it, waving it or dropboxing it. That friend on your local network can drop that address in a browser or use a command like wget and grab the file; the server shuts down and everyone is happy. It also will take a directory, zip, tar/gzip or tar/bzip2 it up and send that along too.

I use this with my wife sometimes on my n800 when we are on our home network, working together and I'm to lazy to drop a file on our shared server. It's a bit more handy when out and about at a coffee shop or library and we need to quickly share something larger than would be reasonable with bluetooth. It works well with all the unixes I tried it on, including my maemo device (n800). Since the Maemo 4 telephony does not support file transfers (I think) I can just use woof to do a transfer while chatting locally with bonjour.

Obviously there are a million and one ways of moving files and directories about, but I like the bare simplicity and utility of this on a local network.

I dropped it into a directory in my path chmod'ed it was good to go. I am not sure what dependencies it needs as my tablet is not handy. I can check if anyone want to use it but can't. If I had the skill or the time it would be cool to see this GUI send option in a file manager of some sort.