Hey HN,

At work, I was annoyed about having to download logs by writing them out to files and transferring them over to my local over HTTP (admittedly, this is because of a rather novel architectural situation).

So, I built a tool in Go that lets you pipe contents into an SSH server for sending and reading them out on another connection. You can also use this tool to transfer files. Just cat the file on the sender end and redirect the output of the receiver end to a file.

Please note that the transfer rate is heavily dependent on your connection and proximity to the public ssh.beam.camp host. This is because there is no simple way to auto connect to the closest host using a regular SSH client.

Hope you find beam useful. Have a nice weekend.