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> > We take the server in the URL as a *suggestion*.
> > The priority of who to contact first for the data is as follows:
> > 1. Localhost
> > 2. entries in ~/.freenet
> > 3. entries in /etc/freenet.conf or appropriate master file
> > 4. Suggested server in URL.
> > 
> > Fair enough?
> 
> Lovely.

Imagine this:

Lazy Bob runs a freenet site (like a website).  He gets a lot of
complaints from users who haven't configured there browser correctly, and
aren't running a node.  These people can't access LazyBob's site.  For a
while, LazyBob helps them out getting them connected.  But LazyBob is
lazy, and eventually he tires of this.  So instead, he starts changing the
URL's on his site to be freenet://lazybob.com/mykey.

Then people that link to LazyBob notice this and say "Hey!  This is how I
can get people off my back".  Bang... freenet dies.

DO NOT ALLOW SERVERS IN THE URL.

Thank you. :)

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