gestetner

A netcat and HTTP command line pastebin for sharing straight from your terminal.

Why another one?

I was able to find pastebin servers which supported publishing pastes over plain sockets (with nc) or over HTTP(S) with curl, but not one that supported both!

There are some scenarios where all you have available is a shell, and being able to paste to a plain socket is surprisingly useful.

Client Usage

SYNOPSIS
    <command> | nc etc.fstab.me 9999
    <command> | curl --data-binary @- https://etc.fstab.me

EXAMPLES
    ~$ ls -l | curl --data-binary @- https://etc.fstab.me
       https://etc.fstab.me/abcd

    ~$ ls -l | nc etc.fstab.me 9999
        https://etc.fstab.me/efgh

Server Usage

USAGE:
  gestetner -l '[::]:9999' -w '[::]:8080' -p /tmp/gst -u http://localhost:8080

FLAGS:
  -h, --help        Prints help information

OPTIONS:
  -u URL            Set the base URL to be returned in paste responses
  -l HOST:PORT      Set the listening socket address for incoming pastes
  -p PATH           Set the filesystem path in which to store pastes
  -w HOST:PORT      Set the listening socket for the HTTP server

  -n LENGTH         Set the length of the random paste slug (default: 4)
  -m MAX_SIZE       Set the maximum size of a paste in bytes (default: 512KiB)
  -r RATE           Maximum number of pastes per minute from a single IP (default: 5)
  --capacity SIZE   Set the maximum size of the paste directory (default: 100MiB)

Gestetner has built-in rate limiting, a paste size limiter, and will remove the oldest pastes in order to keep its disk usage below the value you supply for capacity.

Installation

$ git clone git@github.com:bradfier/gestetner.git

$ cargo build --release
$ sudo cp target/release/gestetner /usr/local/bin/

$ gestetner -l 127.0.0.1:9999 -w 127.0.0.1:8080 -p /tmp -u http://localhost:8080

Alternatively, install from Crates.io with cargo install gestetner or use the provided Dockerfile to build an image instead.

License

gestetner is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, Version 3. See LICENSE for more information.