rustpaste

A private pastebin server written in Rust, using actix-web framework. Aiming to be very simple.

This is a work in progress.

REST API

• To upload a paste, send a POST request to / with application/x-www-form-urlencoded data. This requires authentication (HTTP basic authentication). If the request is successful, response contains the URL of the paste.

  Note that urlencoded data is not the best approach for this because of some limitations (for example the max file size imposed by actix-web, extra overhead for non-ASCII data). I'm planning to change this to use multipart/form-data. Dealing with urlencoded data is so much easier in actix-web; that's why I chose to do it this way initially.

  You can use curl as follows to upload the contents of a file named filename:

  curl <domain> --basic -u "user:pass" --data-urlencode "data@filename"
  

  You should definitely use HTTPS or you'll get owned. Since rustpaste does not have SSL support, put it behind some reverse proxy (such as nginx) with SSL support.

• To get a paste, send a GET request to the URL returned by the POST. To get the paste with syntax highlighting, add the file extension for the file as a separate path parameter in the GET request. For example, to highlight a paste with name QDRASC3w as Rust source code, send a request to /QDRASC3w/rs.

• TODO: To delete a paste, send a DELETE request to the paste URL. This requires authentication.

Configuration

TODO: Things like where to store the pastes, username and password to be used by HTTP authentication, base URL to prepend to the POST responses will be configured using a config file.

Planned features

After implementing a very basic API with GET and POST requests, I'm planning to add the following features.

• [x] HTTP basic authentication for posting/deleting pastes.
• [x] Syntax highlighting with syntect.
• [ ] DELETE method to delete pastes.
• [ ] Configuration via a config file.