On Monday 06 Aug 2012 10:35:11 Pouyan Zaxar wrote: > The following is a digest of a discussion on #freenet-chat regarding > multi-user support for Freenet. > > A node is uniquely identified by its reference. If there are multiple > local users on a single machine, it would be advantageous for node to > manage each user separately, e.g. users can login into the node. This > would be also an improvement for integration of social stuff.
Furthermore, a single user *will* often have multiple WoT identities. Since the fixes in WoT a while back creating multiple WoT identities is actually feasible now. :) Plus eventually we'd like to have hidden/stego'ed identities. > > To manage login-sessions, followings were discussed: > > 1) Using Cookies > Session ID is stored in a cookie. > > 2) Session ID > Session ID is contained in each URL (see Servlet URL rewriting [1]) > 3) Global Login > Session is globally saved (e.g. as configuration in node) > > For the plug-in that I'm currently working on, Winterface, I use Jetty > as Servlet container and Wicket as web-framework. According to Servlet > specification [1], if client does not support cookies, the server falls > back into URL rewriting and adds the session ID to each URL. If both > cookies and URL rewriting are disabled on demand, the global login is > used as a last resort. That seems reasonable. Or we could try #1 and fall back to #3, but tell the user when we do. "You have cookies turned off. Freenet installed on this computer will assume that you always want to be logged in with the same identity (currently <name>) regardless of what browser you use, who you log on to this computer as, and so on." > > Thanks, > pausb > > [1] http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr154/index.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20120806/21984159/attachment.pgp>
