From: "Ian Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Just tried out the new Freeweb. The most obvious problem seemed to be
>that whenever I tried to retrieve a file that I had inserted, it simply
>contained the word "bar"...?
Can you be more specific - what OS are you running etc?
Also, can you reproduce this with a simple key?
>At a more general level, I would really encourage the FreeWeb guys to
>get rid of that whole DNS business, it complicates things
>unnescessarily. If you must have user-friendly Keys, then use KSKs (and
>accept the consequences).
Already done :)
Sites get inserted as an MSK@SSK@buhbuhbuh/mysite//
but now, FreeWeb also inserts a KSK which DBR's to the site.
For example:
http://www.mysite.free/dir1/file.html
is visible from mainstream Freenet as:
freenet:MSK@KSK@freeweb/mysite//dir1/file.html
or, if your client permits abbreviations,
simply 'freeweb/mysite//dir1/file.html'.
The whole 'DNS registry' business is gone, since the translation of a .free
web URL to the KSK is trivial and done in-Freenet without needing me or
anyone to run a registry.
>Additionally, the whole proxy mechanism is rather superfluous, and I
>couldn't get it working.
Again, can't help till I know more what you're doing.
Are you using the latest FreeWeb?
It's up on the SF site (now they've fixed their shell access).
>Why not just let people connect straight to
>FProxy as nature intended
Because with FreeWeb running as a true http proxy, it takes control of all
the browser's access to the internet.
This allows for a far more accurate anonymity filter. Try it and see.
The proxy has been completely re-written from scratch, unlike the previous
version (which badly cannibalised bits of JunkBusters).
Also, I've received reports that the FreeWeb proxy is out-performing FProxy
in speed and reliability of key retrieval.
>and forget about trying to create this
>illusion of a .free domain space?
What's the problem with presenting newer users with a familiar paradigm?
Isn't that what the EOF project is doing as well?
>This is shaping up to be an excellent tool, if only it could have some
>of these well intentioned but superfluous features removed
You can now use FreeWeb without having to deal with *any* of the *superflous
features*. If you don't like these features, you don't have to use, or even
know, of them. But from the feedback I've had, lots of people like these
features.
>stabalize what is left, it should really encourage usage of Freenet.
I'm actively debugging - it's getting more stable by the hour.
Please keep the (detailed) bug reports coming.
Better yet, I'm on #freenet much of the time between 2200 and 1300 GMT. If
you can talk to me there, we can interact and pinpoint things faster.
Cheers
David
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