On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Brandon wrote:
> > I've been annoyed by FProxy's promiscuous behavior for a while now, and
> > nothing's been done about it, even though it's really easy to restrict the
> > connection to localhost, and only a little harder to read a configuration
> > file.
>
> FProxy used to only work from localhost (well, not entirely. it was
> enforced by gateway.html, not FProxy itself, so it was circumventable, but
> that's not the point) and was modified, I forgot who by, to be promiscuous
> because some people think that's the Right Thing to do. So no, you
> shouldn't change it back. We should have another round of argueing about
> what's right first. Because they last time it was changed there were
> several people still argueing that it should only listen to localhost and
> someone changed it anyway without saying anything. Which is a very chaotic
> way to run a project.
Oh, yeah, I forgot. Whoever did it, they technically broke the HTML,
because the action attribute is mandatory for the form tag. And that
confused Mozilla terribly.
Setting action="/" fixes the Mozilla thing and still allows indiscriminate
access.
And I must make up my mind about mapfiles. While real updating is vapor,
there's not much of an advantage to either proposal, because in order to
do pseudo-updating we need
freenet:SSK@asdf/YYYY-MM-DD//index.html (in my system)
or
freenet:MSK@asdf/YYYY-MM-DD/index.html (in Scott's)
They're identical. To get to the latest version of either, you've got to
insert a Javascript redirect page.
In the future, both proposals can use guessable keys, but by different
mechanisms. Mine will simply substitute an updatable SVK for the SSK
above:
freenet:blah//index.html (blah -> SVK@asdf; one redirect)
When updatable SVKs and a real browser plugin (one that can properly keep
track of redirects and update the location) are done, Scott's proposal
will also allow guessable keys:
freenet:blah (blah -> MSK@asdf/updateableSVK/index.html; one redirect)
So in the future, we're also even. So it comes down to which one is better
design, and Scott wins. I've got a bit of hacking to do. First, I sleep.
--
Mark Roberts
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