btbd/timeline repository overview

⁠Timeline

A simple timeline for logging pictures with messages.

⁠Usage

⁠Server Arguments

• p - Port (default 80)
• h - Web page header title (default "Timeline")
• v - Display debug info
• crt - File path to certificate for TLS
• key - File path to key for TLS
• posts - Directory path to store posts
• tokens - File path to Bearer tokens separated by new lines for verifying POST requests
  • If this is not specified, no Bearer token is necessary to add a post
  • Example tokens file

firstToken123 # comment
secondToken987 # another comment

⁠Adding Posts

• Make a multipart POST request to host/post with:
  • HTTP Header Authorization - Contains a valid Bearer token (if necessary)
  • 1st part - JSON message containing from (author) and message (caption text for image)
  • 2nd part - Raw image to post

⁠Example POST using NodeJS

var request = require("request");
var fs      = require("fs");

request({
	method: "POST",
	url: "http://localhost/post",
	headers: {
		"authorization": "Bearer token123",
		"content-type": "multipart/mixed"
	},
	multipart: [
		{
			"content-type": "application/json",
			body: JSON.stringify({
				"from": "the author",
				"message": "the message",
			})
		},
		{
			"content-type": "image/jpeg",
			body: fs.createReadStream("image.jpg")
		}
	],
}, function(error, response, body) {
	console.log(error, body);
});