On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 20:18, David McNab wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 10:24, Bogdan Butnaru wrote: > > I write this message because I noticed there is a clash between the > > Amphetadesk (sourceforge.net/projects/amphetadesk/) URIs and those of > > Freenet (www.freenetproject.org). Both seem to use URIs beginning with > > 127.0.0.1:8888. > [,,,] > Don't regard this as a design fault. While many standard services have > been settled on specific ports (eg SMTP=25, HTTP=80, HTTPS=443 etc), > there are a great many software packages which aren't standardised, and > cope by providing easy ways to change the listening port. > The "correct" way to fix this is for IANA to provide a namespace for URI's, i.e. freenet project should be able to ask for and receive a reseveration on "freenet://" URI's. Then there should be a configuration option in all browsers to specify how to resolve such URI's, i.e. freenet:// should translate to http://localhost:8888/ if the user knows he is running FProxy on localhost:08888.
Then web pages could refer to freenet sites with freenet:// instead of http://127.0.0.1:8888/ Don't hold your breath. BTW I suppose this has been debated endlessly on usenet, and I don't know what was said. Sorry. If you are interested in fixing this, you could research the question of how to reserve "freenet://" and how to get the open-source browsers to provide the necessary configuration option. Alternatively, I imagine that one could write javascript which would live on the server which hosts the page referring to a freenet URI, so that when the user clicks on the URI, the javascript asks (once) how to access FProxy and adjusts the reference. This is a more do-able project. -- Edward J. Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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