> > Remember, you are doing users a dis-service by encouraging them not to run a > > node locally. I would _heavily_ suggest you do like the other clients and > > use > > only the key for request, defaulting to localhost:19114 and using a switch / > > config file to get another address. > > I think it's unreasonable to expect most users to run their own local > nodes. Most end users will probably use a trusted node (isp's, company's) > simply because it's a pain to set one up. Even if end users setup their > own nodes, they'll tend to have a low uptime and not be too useful to the > network as a whole.
But specifying the server to use in the URL completely destroys the whole point of using Freenet - suddenly you are just downloading information from a centralized server again. You lose efficiently, anonymity, decentralisation, in fact, pretty-much everything that makes Freenet worth using - you may as well just put the information on the web server and download it from that (since the effect will be almost identical). If people don't use a local (or near-by) Freenet node, then they are not truely using Freenet (or they may as-well just use the WWW). Ian. _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
