copyparty/docs/cursed-usecases

insane ways to use copyparty

wireless keyboard

problem: you wanna control mpv or whatever software from the couch but you don't have a wireless keyboard

"solution": load some custom javascript which renders a virtual keyboard on the upload UI and each keystroke is actually an upload which gets picked up by a dummy metadata parser which forwards the keystrokes into xdotool

no joke, this actually exists and it wasn't even my idea or handiwork (thx steen)

appxsvc tarpit

problem: svchost.exe is using 100% of a cpu core, and upon further inspection (procmon) it is wsappx desperately trying to install something, repeatedly reading a file named AppxManifest.xml and messing with an sqlite3 database

"solution": create a virtual filesystem which is intentionally slow and trick windows into reading it from there instead

• create a file called AppxManifest.xml and put something dumb in it
• serve the file from a copyparty instance with --rsp-slp=9 so every request will hang for 9 sec
• net use m: http://127.0.0.1:3993/ (mount copyparty using the windows-native webdav client)
• mklink /d c:\windows\systemapps\microsoftwindows.client.cbs_cw5n1h2txyewy\AppxManifest.xml m:\AppxManifest.xml