Many Services like Facebook Chat and Skype (and others) are grabbing every link you paste into the chat. To avoid this the use of simple passwords the user needs to enter before download is commonly used. This might be a useful addition.

Can user authentication be added?

The version number is currently hard coded in several places:

• serve.go - the actual code
• README
• docs/README
• Scoop manifest
• Hombebrew formula
• Snapcraft configuration file
• VERSION file

A test should be created for the user endpoint.

This test will require the create_object function in file_server/util to create the objects the function needs. There is an example of this function's usage in file_server/web/endpoints/__test__/test_active_clients.py

Tests:

• Verify response has "error" key and value is "Needs auth"
• Verify name and refresh_rate keys in respon