Extended and more easy support for external shares
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The most annoying but also promising tool is the possibility to add external shares.
At moment, I get several shares to some cloud storeage which content that gets updated frequently. Most of these shares do not need a username and password.
Describe the solution you'd like
Replace the UI and follow an analytic way.
- User could somewhere add any Link he get and tick “Analyse”
- User could (not required) add username and password to allow analyse behind a login form.
- Nextcloud check the URL for hints to several protocols.
- check if a .well-known exist
- check redirects
- check content
- check for login-forms or password less access
- ask for username/password if not already provided or password less
7, ask what integration in Nextcloud is wished if more than one is detected and possible.- e.g. ohter Nextclouds provide contact, calendar, files, etc. may not all integration is wished.
- e.g. file acces is not needed but integration in Photo.
- Allow addons to add own protocol, add detection rules and integration if certain requirement are given.
- add a generic html reader. e.g. If I get a shortlink for some thirdparty cloudstorage (without support for a known way) with a image/file galery. It would be nice if Nextcloud would be able to extract the images and files from html and allow me access them over a nextcloud directory.
Additional context
Issues that could be solved along this approach: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/35274
Blueprint: https://help.nextcloud.com/t//232809
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Research direction
Start with the requested behavior in this issue and the related issue #35274, then read the linked Blueprint. The proposal needs a defined integration scope and acceptance criteria before implementation; done would mean a specific external-share flow and supported protocol behavior are agreed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- php
- Domain
- cloud
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 15/100