On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 06:21:51AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > As everybody seems keen on beefing up fproxy all of a sudden, here's a > few suggestions for some little changes you all might like to consider, > > 1) Death to the evil browser cache. > > For all the security Freenet provides, browsing freesites still leaves > a trail of cached pages behind. I'm sure there must be some HTTP > directive to instruct the browser to not cache pages, but unfortunately > I can't think of it right now. Also, if this feature can be added, > please make it optional, as some strange people may actually like the > caching behaviour kept as it is. Hmmmmm. > > 2) SSL Freesite browsing. > > I seem to dimly recall this being discussed a long time ago now, and I > forget why it never actually came to anything. Although I do notice > some old SSL interface code still lurking around the Freenet source > tree, seemingly doing nothing. > > As there seem to be quite a few people who like to leave their nodes > running 24/7, and access them from remote locations during the day, > leaving fproxy without a secure socket option seems like a serious > ommision IMHO. > > Additionally, SSL browsing does have the extra bonus feature that > most 'good' browsers will not cache SSL documents by default, and are > careful about cleaning up any other little temp files that might be > sitting around. So this ties in with the previous caching issue quite > nicely I think. > > 3) How to magically make freesites load faster ... > Well, turning off caching is going to make freesites load SLOWER. > OK, so maybe not physically faster, but I notice fproxy doesn't seem to > stream keys to the browser as they are retrieved from the network. I'm > sure I remember fproxy 0.3 supporting this though. Hmm, correct behaviour is to stream in verified chunks of 4kB. > > Most modern browsers support streaming the display of web pages, so > if 'some' HTML, or a bit of an image can be made to appear just that > little bit faster (ok, actually a lot faster in many cases I suspect), > then I say that's got to be worth looking into. > > At the moment, many freesites *appear* to fetch very slowly, when this > need not be the case. > > Anyway, I'd be interested to hear what people think of my suggestions. > > Thanks. > > CofE. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: Hush 2.1 > Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com > > wl4EARECAB4FAj1yFIQXHGNvZmUtbWFpbEBodXNobWFpbC5jb20ACgkQFbDVjdIJmIW8 > /ACfYIAAetnC/7pkZJRjkFDeZIgnQysAoJ4+cLwOHR9Cp10zyYJQ0Od2JiOI > =lwbF > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > Get your free encrypted email at https://www.hushmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >
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