On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:02:27PM +1200, David McNab wrote:
> From: "Ian Clarke" <ian at hawk.freenetproject.org>
>
> <snip>
>
> Have a closer look at FreeWeb.
>
> It may not have been noticed that it's easy to use FreeWeb in a way which
> complies completely with the existing standards - this was true even in the
> first prototype.
>
> As it stands (and always has done), FreeWeb performs the creation and
> updating of completely standard MSK at SSK@alphabetsoup/subkey// style
> freesites.
>
> All you need to do is:
>
> 1) Start FreeWeb
> 2) Drag a folder from your desktop, or file manager, onto the window
> 3) Give your site a name
> 4) Click 'OK' to accept the settings
> 5) Click 'Refresh All' to upload the site
>
> FreeWeb takes care of the SVK key generation, DBR SSK rooting, CHK creation
> and manifest insertion.
>
> Once the site is uploaded, you can double-click on the site in the view pane
> (or right-click then choose 'Properties'), and you'll see a dialog
> displaying the 'politically correct' URI for the freesite you've just
> created. This URI will work in FProxy, the CLI clients and God knows where.
>
> Thereafter, just after midnight GMT each day, run FreeWeb and click on
> 'Refresh All Sites'. FreeWeb will automagically:
> 1) Re-scan your freesite directory
> 2) Add new files found to the manifest
> 3) Compare datestamps of existing files
> 4) Drop from the manifest files that are no longer present
> 5) Build a queue of new and modified files to insert as CHKs
> 6) Split off into 16 threads and insert these files
> 7) Once the files' CHKs are harvested, write a manifest and insert it as
> freenet:SSK at alphabetsoup/yyyymmddhhmmss-sitename
> It does not try to reinsert any files that haven't changed.
>
> There is no compulsion to use the FWproxy part.
> There is no compulsion to use the KSK
> There is no compulsion to view sites as www.sitename.free
> All this is optional.
>
> Once I stabilise the current version, new features I have in mind include:
> * A configurable scheduler to take care of the midnight GMT updates
> automatically
> * The option to set the baseline time to a chosen or random hour, so as to
> avoid any risk of 'midnight GMT traffic jams'
Just insert it a few hours in advance and change the date to tomorrow. It's what
everyone does.
> * Optional configurable key index submission
> * Optional harvesting of key indexes
>
> I'm happy to add an option to allow users to disable FWproxy, so there's not
> another open port.
> Also, I'll take seriously any other suggestions.
>
> David
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