Whew... that's an interesting beast you have created there... coming out of nowhere it seems - or did I overlook any announcements? Many questions come to my mind: how do you prevent domain name grabbing - and so on...
But I'll just try out the software and ask more educated questions then... heh, sometimes it DOES have advantages to use Windows. -Stefan ----- Original Message ----- From: David McNab To: devl at freenetproject.org ; Freenet Support ; chat at freenetproject.org Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 3:46 PM Subject: [freenet-devl] FreeWeb - new GUI Client Hi all, Announcing a brand new GUI-based Freenet client program. It's called 'FreeWeb', and uses Freenet to implement a new World Wide Web over Freenet. More specifically, it implements a new domain called ".free", using an in-Freenet DNS registry. Unlike the mainstream Web, sites published on '.free' are immune to takedown demands, and can't be tracked to their publishers. For example, you can publish a site, and create URLs on your own domain such as www.blahoo.free You can also use these URLs to visit other people's sites. Features: * No need to know anything about Freenet keys - no more 'freenet:MSK at SSK@whatthehellisallthisgobbledook/somesite//' * Easy GUI-based upload of websites - just drag'n'drop a folder, name the domain and go * Implements a 'pirate' domain called '.free' * Compatible with any web browser * Smart configurable anonymity filter blocks web bugs * Secure in-Freenet DNS registry with fully automatic domain creation and submission * Fully compatible with existing MSK at SSK@blahblah/sitename// URIs * Includes a special proxy server, so browsers actually see a domain called '.free'. For example, browsers will retrieve the URL www.freeweb.free * Does all the housekeeping involved in uploading and updating websites - as many as you want * Transparently uses Mr Bad's 'freenetmirror' in background as the upload engine * Uploaded sites are automatically listed on www.dns.free (unless author requests otherwise) * cron-friendly - able to update sites in non-gui mode FreeWeb is officially alpha code, but basically quite safe, stable and functional. I've squished as many bugs as I can find just now, but don't expect it to be totally perfect. It feels appropriate to put it out for testing now, so as it approaches beta and full release, I can make best use of your feedback. It's been successfully tested on Windows 98 and 2000. Hopefully it should also work on Win95C (perhaps B too), and NT 4.51 Sorry, but at the moment, no Linux or Mac ports are available (KDE and Mac developers please get in touch). To find out more, and download your copy, visit http://freeweb.dynodns.net Any bugs, suggestions, bouquets and brickbats, please send to me directly - david at rebirthing.co.nz Enjoy! :) David -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010421/9ed0fac4/attachment.html>
