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This is really cool. It has saved us quite a bit of frustration.

http://www.linux.com/feature/60098

The short of it is that it takes a file and sets it up for download via an http connection.

It really came in useful earlier when we had a Linux, Windows, and Mac systems that were being difficult in sharing files with each other. The Windows system could share a folder that the Linux system via Samba could see and a Mac OSX that we could connect to Linux via SSH but that was about it. So we put all the files on the Linux system, and I was able to share the folder with all systems with woof. Made it super simple to share folders with everyone. No difficult settings, no package installs on every system, and even better is that it doesn't leave a service running. It is just start, download, and be done with it!

Anyway, thought others might find this useful.
Have Fun!
~S~

I just ran across this usage just a moment ago, someone implemented a gnome-do plugin that integrates with pidgin to allow you to send the link to a pidgin user and implements the transfer using woof.

In the past, me and my buddies have used netcat to achieve the same thing, works great.

can you post the link to that plugin? That would be really nice to have since the file transfers in pidgin seem to be on and off.

Thanks!