-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 As everybody seems keen on beefing up fproxy all of a sudden, here's a few suggestions for some little changes you all might like to consider,
1) Death to the evil browser cache. For all the security Freenet provides, browsing freesites still leaves a trail of cached pages behind. I'm sure there must be some HTTP directive to instruct the browser to not cache pages, but unfortunately I can't think of it right now. Also, if this feature can be added, please make it optional, as some strange people may actually like the caching behaviour kept as it is. 2) SSL Freesite browsing. I seem to dimly recall this being discussed a long time ago now, and I forget why it never actually came to anything. Although I do notice some old SSL interface code still lurking around the Freenet source tree, seemingly doing nothing. As there seem to be quite a few people who like to leave their nodes running 24/7, and access them from remote locations during the day, leaving fproxy without a secure socket option seems like a serious ommision IMHO. Additionally, SSL browsing does have the extra bonus feature that most 'good' browsers will not cache SSL documents by default, and are careful about cleaning up any other little temp files that might be sitting around. So this ties in with the previous caching issue quite nicely I think. 3) How to magically make freesites load faster ... OK, so maybe not physically faster, but I notice fproxy doesn't seem to stream keys to the browser as they are retrieved from the network. I'm sure I remember fproxy 0.3 supporting this though. Most modern browsers support streaming the display of web pages, so if 'some' HTML, or a bit of an image can be made to appear just that little bit faster (ok, actually a lot faster in many cases I suspect), then I say that's got to be worth looking into. At the moment, many freesites *appear* to fetch very slowly, when this need not be the case. Anyway, I'd be interested to hear what people think of my suggestions. Thanks. CofE. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Hush 2.1 Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com wl4EARECAB4FAj1yFIQXHGNvZmUtbWFpbEBodXNobWFpbC5jb20ACgkQFbDVjdIJmIW8 /ACfYIAAetnC/7pkZJRjkFDeZIgnQysAoJ4+cLwOHR9Cp10zyYJQ0Od2JiOI =lwbF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Get your free encrypted email at https://www.hushmail.com _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
