On: $ cat ~/myfile | curl -X PUT --upload-file “-” htt...

[blowski]

What's the advantage of doing this instead of just using SCP or SFTP?

[moonshinefe → blowski]

With SFTP and SCP you need to run a daemon on the hosting machine, and create credentials for the other user to login so it's a bunch of extra steps.

For a lot of people with firewalls and no root / admin access, it becomes a major pain.

[z3t4 → moonshinefe]

It's kinda funny that everything runs on port 80/443 now a days because of this.

[stephenboyd → blowski]

People who doesn't even know what a text shell is can just drag a file icon onto the page to upload. No accounts or passwords are involved at either end, so it's about as frictionless as possible.