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HTTPDirFS stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Directory Filesystem. The performance of the program is excellent. HTTP connections are reused through curl-multi interface. The FUSE component runs in the multithreaded mode. There is a permanent cache system which can cache all the file segments you have downloaded, so you don't need to these segments again if you access them later. This feature is triggered by the ``--cache`` flag. This is similar to the ``--vfs-cache-mode full`` feature of [rclone mount](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/#vfs-cache-mode-full) There is support for Airsonic / Subsonic server. This allows you to mount a remote music collection locally. If you only want to access a single file, there is also a simplified Single File Mode. This can be especially useful if the web server does not present a HTTP directory listing. ## Installation Please note if you install HTTDirFS from a repository, it can be outdated. ### Debian 12 "Bookworm" HTTPDirFS is available as a package in Debian 12 "Bookworm", If you are on Debian Bookworm, you can simply run the following command as ``root``: apt install httpdirfs For more information on the status of HTTDirFS in Debian, please refer to [Debian package tracker](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/httpdirfs-fuse) ### Arch Linux HTTPDirFS is available in the [Arch User Repository](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/httpdirfs). ### FreeBSD HTTPDirFS is available in the [FreeBSD Ports Collection](https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/fusefs-httpdirfs/). ## Compilation ### Ubuntu Under Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, you need the following packages: libgumbo-dev libfuse-dev libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev uuid-dev help2man libexpat1-dev pkg-config autoconf ### Debian 12 "Bookworm" Under Debian 12 "Bookworm" and newer versions, you need the following packages: libgumbo-dev libfuse-dev libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev uuid-dev help2man libexpat1-dev pkg-config autoconf ### FreeBSD The following dependencies are required from either pkg or ports: Packages: gmake fusefs-libs gumbo e2fsprogs-libuuid curl expat pkgconf help2man If you want to be ableto build the documentation ("gmake doc") you also need doxygen (devel/doxygen). Ports: devel/gmake sysutils/fusefs-libs devel/gumbo misc/e2fsprogs-libuuid ftp/curl textproc/expat2 devel/pkgconf devel/doxygen misc/help2man **Note:** If you want brotli compression support, you will need to install curl from ports and enable the option. You can then build + install with: ./configure gmake sudo gmake install Alternatively, you may use the FreeBSD [ports(7)](https://man.freebsd.org/ports/7) infrastructure to build HTTPDirFS from source with the modifications you need. ### macOS You need to install some packages from Homebrew: brew install macfuse curl gumbo-parser openssl pkg-config help2man If you want to be able to build the documentation ("make doc") you also need help2man, doxygen, and graphviz. Build and install: ./configure make sudo make install Apple's command-line build tools are usually installed as part of setting up Homebrew. HTTPDirFS will be installed in ``/usr/local``. ## Usage ./httpdirfs -f --cache $URL $MOUNT_POINT An example URL would be [Debian CD Image Server](https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/). The ``-f`` flag keeps the program in the foreground, which is useful for monitoring which URL the filesystem is visiting. ### Useful options HTTPDirFS options: -u --username HTTP authentication username -p --password HTTP authentication password -P --proxy Proxy for libcurl, for more details refer to https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_PROXY.html --proxy-username Username for the proxy --proxy-password Password for the proxy --cache Enable cache (default: off) --cache-location Set a custom cache location (default: "${XDG_CACHE_HOME}/httpdirfs") --dl-seg-size Set cache download segment size, in MB (default: 8) Note: this setting is ignored if previously cached data is found for the requested file. --max-seg-count Set maximum number of download segments a file can have. (default: 128*1024) With the default setting, the maximum memory usage per file is 128KB. This allows caching files up to 1TB in size using the default segment size. --max-conns Set maximum number of network connections that libcurl is allowed to make. (default: 10) --retry-wait Set delay in seconds before retrying an HTTP request after encountering an error. (default: 5) --user-agent Set user agent string (default: "HTTPDirFS") --no-range-check Disable the built-in check for the server's support for HTTP range requests --insecure-tls Disable licurl TLS certificate verification by setting CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST to 0 --single-file-mode Single file mode - rather than mounting a whole directory, present a single file inside a virtual directory. For mounting a Airsonic / Subsonic server: --sonic-username The username for your Airsonic / Subsonic server --sonic-password The password for your Airsonic / Subsonic server --sonic-id3 Enable ID3 mode - this present the server content in Artist/Album/Song layout --sonic-insecure Authenticate against your Airsonic / Subsonic server using the insecure username / hex encoded password scheme Useful FUSE options: -d -o debug enable debug output (implies -f) -f foreground operation -s disable multi-threaded operation ## Airsonic / Subsonic server support The Airsonic / Subsonic server support is dedicated the my Debian package maintainer Jerome Charaoui.You can mount the music collection on your Airsonic / Subsonic server (*sonic), and browse them using your favourite file browser. You simply have to supply both ``--sonic-username`` and ``--sonic-password`` to trigger the *sonic server mode. For example: ./httpdirfs -f --cache --sonic-username $USERNAME --sonic-password $PASSWORD $URL $MOUNT_POINT You definitely want to enable the cache for this one, otherwise it is painfully slow. There are two ways of mounting your *sonic server - the index mode - and the ID3 mode. In the index mode, the filesystem is presented based on the listing on the ``Index`` link in your *sonic's home page. In ID3 mode, the filesystem is presented using the following hierarchy: 0. Root 1. Alphabetical indices of the artists' names 2. The arists' names 3. All of the albums by a single artist 4. All the songs in an album. By default, *sonic server is mounted in the index mode. If you want to mount in ID3 mode, please use the ``--sonic-id3`` flag. Please note that the cache feature is unaffected by how you mount your *sonic server. If you mounted your server in index mode, the cache is still valid in ID3 mode, and vice versa. HTTPDirFS is also known to work with the following applications, which implement some or all of Subsonic API: - [Funkwhale](https://funkwhale.audio/) (requires ``--sonic-id3`` and ``--no-range-check``, more information in [issue #45](https://github.com/fangfufu/httpdirfs/issues/45)) - [LMS](https://github.com/epoupon/lms) (requires ``--sonic-insecure`` and ``--no-range-check``, more information in [issue #46](https://github.com/fangfufu/httpdirfs/issues/46). To mount the [demo instance](https://lms.demo.poupon.io/), you might also need ``--insecure-tls``) - [Navidrome](https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome), more information in [issue #51](https://github.com/fangfufu/httpdirfs/issues/51). ## Single file mode If you just want to access a single file, you can specify ``--single-file-mode``. This effectively creates a virtual directory that contains one single file. This operating mode is similar to the unmaintained [httpfs](http://httpfs.sourceforge.net/). e.g. ./httpdirfs -f --cache --single-file-mode https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-11.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso mnt This can be useful if the web server does not present a HTTP directory listing. This feature was implemented due to Github [issue #86](https://github.com/fangfufu/httpdirfs/issues/86) ## Permanent cache system You can cache the files you have accessed permanently on your hard drive by using the ``--cache`` flag. The file it caches persist across sessions. By default, the cache files are stored under ``${XDG_CACHE_HOME}/httpdirfs``, which by default is ``${HOME}/.cache/httpdirfs``. Each HTTP directory gets its own cache folder, they are named using the escaped URL of the HTTP directory. Once a segment of the file has been downloaded once, it won't be downloaded again. Please note that due to the way the permanent cache system is implemented. The maximum download speed is around 15MiB/s, as measured using my localhost as the web server. However after you have accessed a file once, accessing it again will be the same speed as accessing your hard drive. If you have any patches to make the initial download go faster, please submit a pull request. The permanent cache system relies on sparse allocation. Please make sure your filesystem supports it. Otherwise your hard drive / SSD will get heavy I/O from cache file creation. For a list of filesystem that supports sparse allocation, please refer to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Allocation_and_layout_policies). ## Configuration file support This program has basic support for using a configuration file. By default, the configuration file which the program reads is ``${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/httpdirfs/config``, which by default is at ``${HOME}/.config/httpdirfs/config``. You will have to create the sub-directory and the configuration file yourself. In the configuration file, please supply one option per line. For example: --username test --password test -f Alternatively, you can specify your own configuration file by using the ``--config`` option. ### Log levels You can control how much log HTTPDirFS outputs by setting the ``HTTPDIRFS_LOG_LEVEL`` environmental variable. For details of the different types of log that are supported, please refer to [log.h](https://github.com/fangfufu/httpdirfs/blob/master/src/log.h) and [log.c](https://github.com/fangfufu/httpdirfs/blob/master/src/log.c). ## The Technical Details For the normal HTTP directories, this program downloads the HTML web pages/files using [libcurl](https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/), then parses the listing pages using [Gumbo](https://github.com/google/gumbo-parser), and presents them using [libfuse](https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse). For *sonic servers, rather than using the Gumbo parser, this program parse *sonic servers' XML responses using [expat](https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat). The cache system stores the metadata and the downloaded file into two separate directories. It uses ``uint8_t`` arrays to record which segments of the file had been downloaded. Note that HTTPDirFS requires the server to support HTTP Range Request, some servers support this features, but does not present ``"Accept-Ranges: bytes`` in the header responses. HTTPDirFS by default checks for this header field. You can disable this check by using the ``--no-range-check`` flag. ## Other projects which incorporate HTTPDirFS - [Curious Container](https://www.curious-containers.cc/docs/red-connector-http#mount-dir) has a Python wrapper for mounting HTTPDirFS. ## Press Coverage - Linux Format - Issue [264](https://www.linuxformat.com/archives?issue=264), July 2020 ## Acknowledgement - First of all, I would like to thank [Jerome Charaoui](https://github.com/jcharaoui) for being the Debian Maintainer for this piece of software. Thank you so much for packaging it! - I would like to thank [Cosmin Gorgovan](https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=S7UZ6MAAAAAJ&hl=en) for the technical and moral support. Your wisdom is much appreciated! - I would like to thank [Edenist](https://github.com/edenist) for providing FreeBSD compatibility patches. - I would like to thank [hiliev](https://github.com/hiliev) for providing macOS compatibility patches. - I would like to thank [Jonathan Kamens](https://github.com/jikamens) for providing a whole bunch of code improvements and the improved build system. - I would like to thank [-Archivist](https://www.reddit.com/user/-Archivist/) for not providing FTP or WebDAV access to his server. This piece of software was written in direct response to his appalling behaviour.