On Saturday 16 June 2001 04:35 pm, you wrote: > Hi, I don't know if anyone has mentioned this Fproxy quirk: When you click on a link to a file-type your browser doesn't know about. Your node starts downloading the file while your browser pops up a dialog asking if you want to download it. If you say yes, your browser makes the node do another request, so you have two going on, cutting your bandwidth in 1/2. This is mainly a problem for us po' folk with 56k modems.
> > After my previous posts blasting FProxy's quirks, and advocating native > implementations of http access to Freenet, I am forced to recant somewhat. > > Why? > > Because FProxy offers the only real anonymity protection. While native http > portals to Freenet, such as FwProxy, may have performance advantages, plus > watertight http anonymity security, there is a security hole - web bugs can > be planted which hit https, ftp, gopher or socks, or some other protocol > which some goddam browser will allow, and it would require proxies for all > these protocols, plus compulsory browser proxy configuration, to protect > anonymity. One slip on user's part could be fatal. > > So, back to FProxy. > FProxy's 'paranoid' filtering is the only way to go. Block anything that > even remotely smells like an out-of-band hit. Give an inventory of all > potentially compromising content. I now appreciate the wisdom of this > approach. > > So I'm taking the position now to ask, PLEASE, for FProxy to get fixed up. > > One bug to report is that periodically, FProxy 'loses the plot' returns > 404's on all freenet requests. Restarting the node fixes this. Yeah, I get this daily. > Hmm, I'm tempted to attempt a port of FProxy to platform-independent C++. > Have the cake and eat it too :) > > Cheers > David > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
