Feat: Add ability to change the expiration time.

[publicarray]

When sharing files due to time-zones and busy life styles. It would be beneficial to allow us to extend the expiration time up-to a few days (say 3 or 5 ?).

My specific use case was to share a coredump for a bug report on GitHub (19mb file) but due to the nature on open-source communities it might take a few days before someone is able to download the file.

[shikhar-scs]

Either we can change it and extend it to a default of 3/4 days OR maybe keep it on the lines of download - limits.
The default time limit can be changed here

send/server/config.js

Lines 53 to 57 in 91dc3aa

	expire_seconds: {
	format: Number,
	default: 86400,
	env: 'EXPIRE_SECONDS'
	},

OR again, we can build it on the lines of download limits

[publicarray]

I'm not sure what you are telling me. But on https://send.firefox.com/ where the text reads

The link to your file will expire after 1 download or 24 hours.

the "1 download" is a configurable drop-down. Why not do the same for the expiration time of the "24 hours"?

[shikhar-scs]

Yeah @publicarray

we can build it on the lines of download limits

meant

the "1 download" is a configurable drop-down. Why not do the same for the expiration time of the "24 hours"?

the other method I proposed was changing the time limit of 86400 seconds which is basically the no. of seconds in a day 😄

[mxschons]

+1

[filips123]

Please also add support to change settings of file (no. of downloads, time, password...) after uploading file.
Also add support to set download and time limit to infinity.

[chrisbra]

I would also welcome such a change.

[timvisee]

I do think 24 hours is a nice default, although making this changeable after uploading would be a nice addition yeah. This probably won't allow an unlimited download time, as this would prevent 'dead' files from being cleaned up.

Such a change may be implemented though file parameters, using the /api/params endpoint, in the same way a download limit can be set. Setting a maximum lifetime here would allow the server to check whether it should expire.

I don't think such a change would be hard to complement. I guess we've to wait for a response from a Mozilla developer, to confirm a feature like this would be allowed.

@dannycoates what are your thoughts on this?

[dannycoates]

We will likely be adding more options for expiration this summer. It's currently in the project plan. We've temporarily slowed development for the moment but expect to resume full-time in June.

[chrisbra]

great to hear. Looking forward :)

[dannycoates]

done in vnext

[filips123]

@dannycoates When will this be available on website?

[dannycoates]

it's available now in beta at https://send2.dev.lcip.org and release should be sometime in February