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*/
/*
To compile a smaller-sized command-line app, you can use the `go` command as
follows:
go build -ldflags "-s -w" -trimpath si.go
*/
package main
import (
"bufio"
"bytes"
"encoding/base64"
"errors"
"io"
"net"
"os"
"os/exec"
"path/filepath"
"runtime"
"strings"
)
const info = `
si [options...] [filenames/URIs...]
This app (Show It) shows data using your default web browser by auto-opening
tabs. When reading from stdin, the content-type is auto-detected: data are
then sent right away to the browser via localhost, using a random port among
the available ones.
The localhost connection is available only until all data are transferred:
this means refreshing your browser tab will lose your content, replacing it
with a server-not-found message page.
When given filenames and/or URIs, the browser tabs will point to their paths,
so accidentally reloading them doesn't make their content disappear, unless
those files are actually deleted between reloads.
Dozens of common data-formats are recognized when piped from stdin, such as
- HTML (web pages)
- PDF
- pictures (PNG, JPEG, SVG, WEBP, GIF)
- audio (AAC, MP3, FLAC, WAV, AU, MIDI)
- video (MP4, MOV, WEBM, MKV, AVI)
- JSON
- generic UTF-8 plain-text
Base64-encoded data URIs are auto-detected and decoded appropriately.
The options are, available both in single and double-dash versions
-h show this help message
-help show this help message
-from declare MIME type, instead of auto-guessing it
-mime declare MIME type, instead of auto-guessing it
-play autoplay media; useful only for audio/video data
-autoplay autoplay media; useful only for audio/video data
`
func main() {
args := os.Args[1:]
var cfg config
for len(args) > 0 {
if args[0] == `--` {
args = args[1:]
break
}
if hasAnyPrefix(args[0], `-from=`, `--from=`, `-mime=`, `--mime=`) {
cfg.From = args[0][strings.IndexByte(args[0], '=')+1:]
args = args[1:]
continue
}
switch args[0] {
case `-h`, `--h`, `-help`, `--help`:
os.Stdout.WriteString(info[1:])
return
case `-autoplay`, `--autoplay`, `-play`, `--play`:
cfg.Autoplay = true
args = args[1:]
case `-from`, `--from`, `-mime`, `--mime`:
if len(args) == 0 {
os.Stderr.WriteString("missing MIME-type argument\n")
os.Exit(1)
}
cfg.From = args[1]
args = args[2:]
}
}
nerr := 0
// show all filenames/URIs given by opening new browser tabs for each
for _, s := range args {
s = strings.TrimSpace(s)
if err := handle(s, cfg); err != nil {
os.Stderr.WriteString(err.Error())
os.Stderr.WriteString("\n")
nerr++
}
}
// serve from stdin only if no filenames were given
if len(args) == 0 {
if err := handleInput(os.Stdin, cfg); err != nil {
os.Stderr.WriteString(err.Error())
os.Stderr.WriteString("\n")
nerr++
}
}
// quit in failure if any input clearly failed to show up
if nerr > 0 {
os.Exit(1)
}
}
func hasAnyPrefix(s string, prefixes ...string) bool {
for _, p := range prefixes {
if strings.HasPrefix(s, p) {
return true
}
}
return false
}
// handle shows a filename/URI by operning a new browser tab for it
func handle(s string, cfg config) error {
// open a new browser window for each URI
if strings.HasPrefix(s, `https://`) || strings.HasPrefix(s, `http://`) {
return showURI(s)
}
// handle data-URIs
if strings.HasPrefix(s, `data:`) && strings.Contains(s, `;base64,`) {
if err := showURI(s); err != nil {
return err
}
return handleInput(strings.NewReader(s), cfg)
}
// the browser needs full paths when showing local files
fpath, err := filepath.Abs(s)
if err != nil {
return err
}
// open a new browser tab for each full-path filename
return showURI(`file:///` + fpath)
}
// showURI tries to open the file/url given using the host operating system's
// defaults
func showURI(what string) error {
const fph = `url.dll,FileProtocolHandler`
switch runtime.GOOS {
case `windows`:
return exec.Command(`rundll32`, fph, what).Run()
case `darwin`:
return exec.Command(`open`, what).Run()
default:
return exec.Command(`xdg-open`, what).Run()
}
}
// handleInput specifically handles stdin and data-URIs
func handleInput(r io.Reader, cfg config) error {
if cfg.From != `` {
return serveOnce(nil, r, serveConfig{
ContentType: cfg.From,
ContentLength: -1,
Autoplay: cfg.Autoplay,
})
}
// before starting the single-request server, try to detect the MIME type
// by inspecting the first bytes of the stream and matching known filetype
// starting patterns
var buf [64]byte
n, err := r.Read(buf[:])
if err != nil && err != io.EOF {
return err
}
start := buf[:n]
// handle data-URI-like inputs
if bytes.HasPrefix(start, []byte(`data:`)) {
if bytes.Contains(start, []byte(`;base64,`)) {
return handleDataURI(start, r, cfg)
}
}
// handle regular data, trying to auto-detect its MIME type using
// its first few bytes
mime, ok := detectMIME(start)
if !ok {
mime = cfg.From
}
if mime == `` {
mime = `text/plain`
}
// remember to precede the partly-used reader with the starting bytes;
// give a negative/invalid filesize hint, since stream is single-use
return serveOnce(start, r, serveConfig{
ContentType: mime,
ContentLength: -1,
Autoplay: cfg.Autoplay,
})
}
// handleDataURI handles data-URIs for func handleInput
func handleDataURI(start []byte, r io.Reader, cfg config) error {
if !bytes.HasPrefix(start, []byte(`data:`)) {
return errors.New(`invalid data-URI`)
}
i := bytes.Index(start, []byte(`;base64,`))
if i < 0 {
return errors.New(`invalid data-URI`)
}
// force browser to play wave and aiff sounds, instead of
// showing a useless download-file option
switch mime := string(start[len(`data:`):i]); mime {
case `audio/wav`, `audio/wave`, `audio/x-wav`, `audio/aiff`, `audio/x-aiff`:
before := beforeAudio
if cfg.Autoplay {
before = beforeAutoplayAudio
}
// surround URI-encoded audio data with a web page only having
// a media player in it: this is necessary for wave and aiff
// sounds, since web browsers may insist on a useless download
// option for those media types
r = io.MultiReader(
strings.NewReader(before),
bytes.NewReader(start),
r,
strings.NewReader(afterAudio),
)
return serveOnce(nil, r, serveConfig{
ContentType: `text/html; charset=UTF-8`,
ContentLength: -1,
Autoplay: cfg.Autoplay,
})
case `image/bmp`, `image/x-bmp`:
// surround URI-encoded bitmap data with a web page only having
// an image element in it: this is necessary for bitmap pictures,
// since web browsers may insist on a useless download option for
// that media type
r = io.MultiReader(
strings.NewReader(beforeBitmap),
bytes.NewReader(start),
r,
strings.NewReader(afterBitmap),
)
return serveOnce(nil, r, serveConfig{
ContentType: `text/html; charset=UTF-8`,
ContentLength: -1,
Autoplay: cfg.Autoplay,
})
default:
start = start[i+len(`;base64,`):]
r = io.MultiReader(bytes.NewReader(start), r)
dec := base64.NewDecoder(base64.URLEncoding, r)
// give a negative/invalid filesize hint, since stream is single-use
return serveOnce(nil, dec, serveConfig{
ContentType: mime,
ContentLength: -1,
Autoplay: cfg.Autoplay,
})
}
}
// config is the result of parsing all cmd-line arguments the app was given
type config struct {
// From is an optional hint for the source data format, and disables
// type-autodetection when it's non-empty
From string
// Autoplay autoplays audio/video data from stdin
Autoplay bool
}
const (
fromUsage = `` +
`declare MIME-type, disabling type-autodetection; ` +
`use when MIME-type autodetection fails, or to use a ` +
`charset different from UTF-8`
mimeUsage = `alias for option -from`
playUsage = `alias for option -autoplay`
autoplayUsage = `autoplay; useful only when stdin has audio/video data`
)
// serveConfig has all details func serveOnce needs
type serveConfig struct {
// ContentType is the MIME type of what's being served
ContentType string
// ContentLength is the byte-count of what's being served; negative
// values are ignored
ContentLength int
// Autoplay autoplays audio/video data from stdin
Autoplay bool
}
// makeDotless is similar to filepath.Ext, except its results never start
// with a dot
func makeDotless(s string) string {
i := strings.LastIndexByte(s, '.')
if i >= 0 {
return s[(i + 1):]
}
return s
}
// hasPrefixByte is a simpler, single-byte version of bytes.HasPrefix
func hasPrefixByte(b []byte, prefix byte) bool {
return len(b) > 0 && b[0] == prefix
}
// hasPrefixFold is a case-insensitive bytes.HasPrefix
func hasPrefixFold(s []byte, prefix []byte) bool {
n := len(prefix)
return len(s) >= n && bytes.EqualFold(s[:n], prefix)
}
// trimLeadingWhitespace ignores leading space-like symbols: this is useful
// to handle text-based data formats more flexibly
func trimLeadingWhitespace(b []byte) []byte {
for len(b) > 0 {
switch b[0] {
case ' ', '\t', '\n', '\r':
b = b[1:]
default:
return b
}
}
// an empty slice is all that's left, at this point
return nil
}
const (
// maxbufsize is the max capacity the HTTP-protocol line-scanners are
// allowed to reach
maxbufsize = 128 * 1024
// beforeAudio starts HTML webpage with just an audio player
beforeAudio = `
wave sound