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 at 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 at 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 _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
