> > Yes, in fact if you hang around long enough, you will find a lot of > > people suggesting using Freenet to overcome the Slashdot Effect. > > Freenet is still slower then HTTP in the sense that it will use more > > bandwidth. An HTTP server under normal bandwidth load will allways be > > faster then Freenet, but Freenet is infinatly faster then not being > > able to get the document at all. > > Would it be possible to add FreeNet into something like Squid so that any > web browser inside a LAN that is already set to use our Squid proxy server > would be able to request FreeNet objects without needing to run nodes on > every machine or to configure each machine to use a special FreeNet > proxy? It'd seem to me that'd be a major issue on making it available > inside firewalls and such. Assuming that is even a desired goal for > FreeNet.
Every computer should be running a Freenet node anyway. There are ways to make Freenet work behind firewalls, though it's a bit tricky last I heard. Something like a Squid proxy server for Freenet is actualy redundant. _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
