We have too many ideas, too few developers.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Matthew Toseland
<toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 11 December 2008 23:00, Daniel Cheng wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Matthew Toseland
>> <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
>> > If we're sure that what is connecting to us is a web browser, and the data
> is
>>
>> "If we're sure" ...
>> But how?
>> Cookie? We have cookie disabled.
>> HTTP-Agent? All browsers is MSIE and Mozilla...
>
> User-Agent should work fine. If we're not using javascript, we can send a
> progress page with a 1 second refresh on seeing a User-Agent that looks like
> a web browser. If wget etc is configured to spoof a User-Agent, that's not
> our problem.
>>
>> HTTP Push with multipart/x-mixed-replace is designed for this,
>> but almost no program support it.
>>
>> > not in cache, we should show a loading screen when a user clicks on a
> link.
>> > With javascript this could be updated in real time, without it it could
> still
>> > be shown with a series of redirects.
>> >
>> > ADVANTAGES:
>> > - Reduce the level of user aggravation by showing them that something is
>> > happening.
>> > - Possibly reduce the number of browser connections needed and thereby
> reduce
>> > the impact of running a non-optimised profile. (We WILL still need a
> custom
>> > browser profile however for security reasons).
>> > - Look better.
>> > - We could probably get rid of the 2MB stream-to-browser file size limit
> if a
>> > loading screen is displayed: We could just show the loading screen until
> the
>> > data is available and then send the whole lot to the user.
>> >
>> > https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=2781
>> >
>> > Thoughts? Should this be a priority for 0.8? Does anyone want to implement
> it
>> > (I'm pretty busy atm!). Does anyone know Javascript well?
>
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