Discussing the activity installer/updater control panel and
olpc-update (a few days before) one design assumption from the XO team
was very strong: that network clients on the XO could just ignore the
XS and attempt direct connections to the desired host and service. If
the XS is there, the logic g
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> - Do HTTP clients using a proxy do not perform DNS lookups? My
> understanding is that they do not, but I am not 100% certain of
> whether this is specified, and how actual clients behave.
many clients do still do the DNS lookups. it's possible to s
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:40 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>
>> - Do HTTP clients using a proxy do not perform DNS lookups? My
>> understanding is that they do not, but I am not 100% certain of
>> whether this is specified, and how actual clients beh
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:40 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>>
>>> - Do HTTP clients using a proxy do not perform DNS lookups? My
>>> understanding is that they do not, but I am not 100% certain of
>>> w
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Martin Langhoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> HTTPS has many problems. None of the basic XO protocols use HTTPS.
>
> Will we never care for end-user privacy?
We do. We just don't use HTTPS. You should know better.
>>> - At the protocol layer you mask a whole h
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:48 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Martin Langhoff
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> HTTPS has many problems. None of the basic XO protocols use HTTPS.
>>
>> Will we never care for end-user privacy?
>
> We do. We just do
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Martin Langhoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Network principles is a nice statement of desired ideal network
> topology. Which we may implement one day - but I am delivering a
> network topology and the _main source of XO services_ on a very tight
> timeframe and w
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:28 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's a nice rhetorical trick. And wrong.
No tricks with me. It is a development strategy I have been using for
years to deliver working code for users.
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Network_principles#Disconnected_op
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Martin Langhoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Network_principles#Disconnected_operation is
>> a principled means to substitute unavailable resources in the offline
>> case.
>
> The solution you suggest has problems, and I mentioned them in
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 07:53:19PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Martin Langhoff
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Network_principles#Disconnected_operation is
> >> a principled means to substitute unavailable resources in the offline
>
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