Config file from URL?

Feature
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While "doing stuff" I have found myself on new machines without my standard config. Luckily I put my (encrypted) config file on an easy to remember (to me) web server and I can make a local copy but that in turn means I leave my config file, possibly out of date, on random systems.

Would it be feasible to just pull the config from a remote web server when the --config option starts with a method instead of a file name?

I already use really primitive code in my own text processing scripts what just does this:

	var f io.ReadCloser
	if strings.HasPrefix(file, "http") {
		fmt.Printf("fetching file %q\n", file)
		res, err := http.Get(file)
		if err != nil {
			log.Fatal(err)
		}
		f = res.Body
		if contents.Source == "" {
			contents.Source = file
		}
	} else {
		var err error
		fmt.Printf("reading file %q\n", file)
		f, err = os.Open(file)
		if err != nil {
			log.Fatal(err)
		}
	}
	var content, _ = ioutil.ReadAll(f)
	f.Close()

Obviously in production/public code it would have to be a little more robust, but ...?

(The encryption password would still be applied using existing means)

Peter

2

Interesting idea!

What would you expect rclone to do when it needs to save the config file?

I note you can fetch the config file with rclone like this

rclone copyurl http://example.com/config .rclone.conf

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I would think it would be "read only" - much like if the file system didn't allow writes.

I can always "wget URL" or curl too, but I was trying to avoid having any local copy to avoid littering and potential out-of-date-ness.

Peter

4

Your idea seems rather like setting environment variables in that respect.

Are you interested in implementing this feature?

5

I can certainly give it a go, but it will take somewhat longer than for those familiar with the project code!

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6

I think everything you can need can be done with just wget/curl + reading the file with bash to set environment variables.

Then instead you can just help ncw maybe implement logging the env variables to the debug output. MUch easier :stuck_out_tongue:

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