On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 01:50:01PM -0600, Mark J. Roberts wrote:
> 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.
No you dont! You need a redirect, but not a javascript one. We need
common client support for date based or time based redirects. Then you
point your browser at "freenet:SSK@asdf/bob's porn emporium" which has a
freenet control message which tells the client to redirect to
"MSK@asdf/TODAYS DATE/index.html". The client fills in the date, be it
FProxy or something else.
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