Tailscale Local API: files via Taildrop

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Thinking of writing a GUI for Tailscale's Taildrop functionality. Here are some musings.

Connect to the /run/tailscale/tailscaled.sock first. It speaks HTTP inside. curl --unix-socket /run/tailscale/tailscaled.sock <URL> will work perfectly.

GET /localapi/v0/files/?waitsec=0
Accept: application/json

Returns Option<Vec<File>>, where File is:

#[derive(serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize)]
#[serde(rename_all = "CamelCase")]
struct File {
    name: String,
    size: usize
}

GET /localapi/v0/files/<NAME> will give you the file. DELETE method removes it from the taildrop directory.