django-unhosted Unhosted remoteStorage server app for django
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django-unhosted is a Django app server (storage) implementation for "stable" remoteStorage API version, specified here:http://www.w3.org/community/unhosted/wiki/RemoteStorage-2011.10Some parts of it (especially webfinger, oauth2, since I've used newer specs that were available at the time) might be compatible with newer ("experimental") API:https://www.w3.org/community/rww/wiki/read-write-web-00#simplehttp://www.w3.org/community/unhosted/wiki/PdsBut since remoteStorage.js 0.7.0 for experimental API is still under heavy development, I haven't tested whether it works with current implementation.remoteStorageIdea is that you can have storage account (with whatever policies and authentication) on host1 and some webapp (say, some visual editor, think MS Word) on host2.To edit document in a webapp, generally host2 would have to implement some sort of user registration, storage (like docs.google.com) for edited docs, etc.With remoteStorage, this storage don't have to be on host2, so you don't have to implement some complex policies and authenticated storage there to launch a full-featured webapp - it can open and save docs to any remote host which supports the protocol (which is basically GET/PUT from WebDAV with OAuth2 on top).host1 can be your VPS, client machine itself (especially easy with direct IPv6, or IPv4 provided via some service like pagekite), some reliable cloud provider or whatever.To fully understand how it all works, I recommend looking at OAuth2, WebDAV, CORS and Webfinger, which are basically all the technologies used to implement the protocol.This django app fully implements web-facing storage for host1, complete with user registration forms (optional, users can be added by other django apps or via django admin interface otherwise), client access management interfaces and a simple demo client.SecuritySince applicaton is a public-internet-facing interface to your (possibly important) data and I'm in no way security expert or specialist, I recommend to pentest or validate the code before storing any sensitive data in it.Data loss or corruption is much easier to prevent (and backups go a long way here, btw) than security exploits, so, again, please look at the code yourself and find issues there which I have a blind spot (not to mention lack of skills) for, thus won't be able to find on my own.Example of obvious (to an outsider analysis) security flaws in another storage-server implementation can be found here, learn the lession there.Product's homepage

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