On Tuesday 12 Jun 2012 17:13:53 Chetan Hosmani wrote: > Thank you. I hope to complete as much as possible within the time frame. > I definitely have a lot of goals after GSoC as well. > > Yes of course, I need to have a PoC stream plugin, to design the > framework. They will happen in parallel. > > An HTTP steno plugin is mostly post GSoC, but I think a lot of people > have a lot of ideas (I was told), and might want to make their own > plugins. But again I will work on a Proof of Concept plugin there as > well. > > One more issue with an HTTP plugin for those behind firewalls, is that > it can't accept/listen to connections always. So I suppose we ll have > to address that too, as we have no central server. From what I see the > one behind a restrictive firewall will definitely have several issues. > But that is expected.
A future HTTP plugin project: 1. Implement and use PortManager, so that TCP-based plugins get forwarded automatically if possible by UPnP. - If chetan_ has time, he could implement this. I don't expect any of the rest. 2. Enable an HTTP-based plugin by default on most nodes. Some interesting aspects of HTTP plugins: - They can get through proxies in many cases, and support for explicit proxying should be configurable. - The CONNECT command is supported by some of those proxies, which provides an easy and efficient way to just get a raw stream. - Similarly, if we don't worry about proxies, we can pass-through to a real HTTP server (on another port/computer) until we see a magic word (computed from e.g. the time, a key in the noderef, etc). - If we do have to speak actual HTTP, there are many ways to abuse the protocol, and many latency tradeoffs. We might even have to create two separate sockets, one for each direction, but either direction can be initiated from either side (i.e. you can connect and GET, or connect and POST). - It would be worth looking at existing tools e.g. httptunnel. > > > On 06/11/2012 02:34 PM, Chetan Hosmani wrote: > >> However I have managed to push a decent bit of code. Although the > >> speed will increase, now that my vacation here begins (semester > >> ended late). > > > > I'm glad to hear things are going well so far, and that your Internet > > connectivity issues and available time should improve shortly. > > > >> 5. Write a PoC steno plugin. > >> > >> I am also in parallel implementing as much as possible of stream > >> transport API. > > > > Do you anticipate that your work will include a proof of concept > > stream transport? (Would the stenography plugin use the stream API?) > > Is my understanding correct that stream transports could do something > > like disguise Freenet traffic as HTTP? > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > -------------- 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/20120619/6aa73dad/attachment.pgp>
