>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Clarke)
>> >From previous discussions on lists and chat, I notice that Freenet
>> developers aren't sharing your staunch objection against freenet: URI
>> handlers, on the grounds that some weird browsers may not handle them.
>
>In this project we choose the correct solutions, these are not always the
most
>popular solutions. Anyway, most Freenet developers have not expressed an
>opinion on the subject so far as I am aware, if I recall, it was Brandon who
>was arguing the pro-freenet: side. I still maintain that requiring browser
>plugins just to achieve the illusion that Freenet is a protocol with similar
>standing to HTTP and FTP is a very bad idea.
How is freenet not a protocol with similar standing to HTTP and FTP? I would
say that's exactly what it is...
>We go from a situation where people can use Freenet easily with any web
>browser, to requiring us to provide plugins for every web browser, and
>updating those plugins with every new browser. Not only will this require
>much more work on our part, but will seriously complicate the installation
>process, particularly for users with uncommon browsers. Now if we got some
>big benefit from this, then it might be worth considering, but we don't.
I think there's a benefit with not being tied into http. In particular, I
think we're going to need browser support to have any sort of practical
'security filter' system, or to be able to submit to in-freenet key indexes
and the like, or to have client-side scripting that doesn't compromise the
user's anonymity... there's probably more I haven't thought of. And I never
understood how freenet: protocol plugins endangered people who wanted to or
had to keep using fproxy.
I agree with you on the .free TLD proxy thing, though, it's a lot of
complexity and insecurity for little (if any) gain. It also buys in to the
broken and corrupt DNS system, one of the things I like about Freenet is its
DNS-independence.
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Benjamin Coates
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