Re: [freenet-devl] Docs

2001-04-16 Thread Ian Clarke
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 08:38:09PM +0100, Adam Langley wrote: "is it auto-generated?" It's a script - but it has to be run manually for the moment Why? If it is a script can't it just be run from a cron job? "Is your intention to make it automatically upload to sourceforge" No - because of

Re: [freenet-devl] Public Keyspace and Data Submission

2001-04-16 Thread Ian Clarke
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:26:00PM -0700, Mr . Bad wrote: "AL" == Adrian Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AL It seems like various people here would rather do away with AL KSKs. I'd like these people to address how data submission AL might be dealt with in lieu of public

Re: [freenet-devl] Think Cash based anonymous submission prototype.

2001-04-17 Thread Ian Clarke
This is absolutely cool - well done, although unfortunately I couldn't read anyone else's messages - perhaps there weren't any... Ian. On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:43:45PM -0400, Gianni Johansson wrote: Check this out:

Re: [freenet-devl] 0.3.8.2 release?

2001-04-19 Thread Ian Clarke
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:00:19PM -0500, Brandon wrote: I have a couple of bugs I'd like to fix. I can probably get to that tonight. I am going to NY tomorrow morning, but perhaps Mr Bad could do a release this weekend? Ian. PGP signature

[freenet-devl] Handling time-consuming freenet operations

2001-04-19 Thread Ian Clarke
Since many applications of Freenet take quite a bit of time (adding to a key-index, sending messages using think-cash etc). Fortunately most of these are not time-critical, however the problem is that current clients to do this tend to block, so you have to leave the client running for quite a

Re: [freenet-devl] 0.3.8.2 release?

2001-04-19 Thread Ian Clarke
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:24:33AM +1200, David McNab wrote: I've had success with embedding the JRE into a client installer. Sun are very clear about their requirements for JRE redistro - required file set etc. I'm confident I can make a fully-compliant installer with JRE built in, one

Re: [freenet-devl] Freenet CVS could be organized better.

2001-04-24 Thread Ian Clarke
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:42:18PM -0400, Michael Carmack wrote: I'm personally developing a couple of projects around the Freenet base. It's not so attractive when my imports look like: import java.io.*; import java.util.*; import Freenet.contrib.*; Why does the concept of using

Re: [freenet-devl] Windows installer 0.3.8.1

2001-04-25 Thread Ian Clarke
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:28:52AM +0100, Dave Hooper wrote: My sourceforge username is stripwax (no laughing at the back...) Thanks... You are added. Ian. PGP signature

[freenet-devl] IMPORTANT NOTE: website moved to www module

2001-04-25 Thread Ian Clarke
Rather than waste energy trying to update the website, I have just created a new module called www and moved the translation-capable website into it. I have updated the website scripts to account for this change. Ian. PGP signature

Re: [freenet-devl] Translating parts of the site and\or program.

2001-04-26 Thread Ian Clarke
Great! Firstly, you should join the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Secondly, grab a sourceforge username and send it to me. Thirdly, read the docs on sourceforge about using CVS. Fourthly, take a look at the existing web structure to see how it works (it is pretty simple, stuff goes in

Re: [freenet-devl] Freenet Web site down?

2001-04-26 Thread Ian Clarke
This seems to be a problem related to the new auto-translating website, although I did a rebuild and it is working again. If it happens again, I will investigate more deeply. Ian. On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:22:54PM +0200, Jan-Thomas Czornack wrote: Yes, for several hours already. Jantho

Re: [freenet-devl] integrating zlib compression into freenet

2001-04-27 Thread Ian Clarke
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:05:18AM -0700, Aaron Voisine wrote: looking at the code, the simplest way to implement zlib compression is to change line 39 of Freenet/client/Document.java to read: this.data = new GZIPInputStream(source); (you'd also have to add import java.util.zip.* near the

[freenet-devl] FCP Layer #3

2001-04-27 Thread Ian Clarke
FCP* seems to be separating out into three layers, these are: [* By FCP I also include the XML-RPC interface] #1 Basic Standard insert/request along with pk generation stuff #2 Metadata Intercepts metadata documents and acts accordingly #3 Stacks Supports stacks, these are a generic name for

Re: [freenet-devl] Wishlist for 0.3.10

2001-04-27 Thread Ian Clarke
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:38:27AM -0700, Mr . Bad wrote: 2) Change InsertClient so that it will do the equivalent of freenetmirror or PutFiles if the local file is a directory. I actually think that we should eat our own dogfood, and replace the FreenetInsert and

[freenet-devl] New mailing list for 0.4 discussion: piesky

2001-04-27 Thread Ian Clarke
I have created a new mailing list for discussion of the next major release, namely 0.4. The list is called piesky and you can subscribe at: http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/piesky The intention of this list is to allow those who are focussed on 0.4 to work without the noise now

Re: [freenet-devl] New mailing list for 0.4 discussion: piesky

2001-04-27 Thread Ian Clarke
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:39:09PM -0700, Mr . Bad wrote: IC == Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IC The intention of this list is to allow those who are focussed IC on 0.4 to work without the noise now found on devl (most of IC which is actually not noise, but only relevant

Re: [freenet-devl] Wishlist for 0.3.10 - FCP bulk insert

2001-04-29 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 12:23:45AM -0500, Brandon wrote: How about 0.3.10 having an FCP enhancement for bulk inserts, suitable for a whole site, similar to Freenetmirror. I can have something like this into the XML-RPC API by 0.3.10. Details need to be worked out. ...and it's FCP at

Re: [freenet-devl] FCP Layer #3

2001-04-29 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 01:40:25AM -0400, Travis Bemann wrote: #3 Stacks Supports stacks, these are a generic name for documents which are updated by appending a higher number each-time. Stacks may be public or private, private stacks are SSKs and can only be added to by the SSK's

[freenet-devl] FCP Layer #3: Stacks

2001-04-30 Thread Ian Clarke
Here is a document I just finished - comments are welcome: Freenet Client Protocol Layer #3 : Stacks Draft Introduction This document is an informal description of the third layer of the Freenet Client Protocol (FCP). It allows higher level operations involving Freenet inserts

[freenet-devl] Freesite HOWTO

2001-05-01 Thread Ian Clarke
We could really use a Freesite HOWTO for the How to publish link on the website, explaining how to create a Freesite using FreenetMirror or one of the other tools. Any takers? Ian. PGP signature

Re: [freenet-devl] FCP Layer #3: Stacks

2001-05-02 Thread Ian Clarke
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:42:16PM -0500, Brandon wrote: No, you've got it all wrong. The solution to the puzzle gives you an insertion address, and the email recipient only checks valid addresses. So you dont have to filter any spam at all, since anything put in those valid spots

[freenet-devl] Time to use the bugtracker...

2001-05-02 Thread Ian Clarke
In an effort to encourage use use of the SF bugtracker, I have added links from the Freenet homepage. Could people please bookmark this page: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browsegroup_id=978atid=100978 And check it every so-often. Some bugs will be auto-assigned, but most won't. Ian.

Re: [freenet-devl] Secure URI translation path??

2001-05-03 Thread Ian Clarke
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:40:26AM +1200, David McNab wrote: Ian's questions about FreeWeb are making me think about a more general Freenet problem, which I toss out now to dev for discussion. The problem is: To design a translation path which will reliably render a short human readable

Re: [freenet-devl] plug-in API for 0.4 (servlets?)

2001-05-03 Thread Ian Clarke
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:12:51PM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote: As has been discussed, the servlet API in its 0.3 form had to be at least temporarily discarded while developing 0.4. Before we bring back this hulking, klunky beast, let's consider using a much simpler plug-in model. I think that

Re: [freenet-devl] log analyzer authors beware of 0.4

2001-05-04 Thread Ian Clarke
I have also been thinking about how logging could be enhanced further. One idea I had was to have a dump log facility, where the last 10 messages of each debugging level are outputted, and could form part of a bug report. This would ease the requirement that someone needs to try to recreate a

[freenet-devl] Tidying up CVS

2001-05-04 Thread Ian Clarke
I would like to tidy up CVS. The first thing to do is to cull unused CVS modules from CVS (via a request to Sourceforge support). The modules I think should be culled are as follows: website : Now we use www freenet : Someone checked in freenet instead of Freenet by

[freenet-devl] Whatever happened to the GJC build?

2001-05-05 Thread Ian Clarke
I haven't heard anything about the GCJ stuff that MJR was working on, what happened to it (it was cool)? Ian. PGP signature

[freenet-devl] no client metadata in 0.4 CHKs?

2001-05-05 Thread Ian Clarke
Someone told me that there would be no metadata permitted in 0.4 CHKs. If this is true then it needs to be rethought - I can imagine no reason why client-side metadata would not be permitted. For example, it would prevent web browsers from displaying documents referenced by CHKs. Is this true?

Re: [freenet-devl] no client metadata in 0.4 CHKs?

2001-05-05 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 05:29:31PM -0500, Brandon wrote: I think it would better to disallow DMI in CHKs altogether. That would make everything must simpler. You can put the DMI for small CHKs in a redirect. I disagree, this means that a redirect would be required just to insert a small image

Re: [freenet-devl] integrating zlib compression into freenet

2001-05-05 Thread Ian Clarke
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:04:26PM -0700, Aaron Voisine wrote: Didn't someone suggest a while back putting an entire web page or web site including images into a single tar file? The file could then be gzipped solving the compression, prefetching, and uneven dropout issues. Yeah, and then

Re: [freenet-devl] integrating zlib compression into freenet

2001-05-05 Thread Ian Clarke
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:56:43AM -0400, Timm Murray wrote: I'm not about to do any scientific servay of it, but I know a lot of data could benifit (web pages, other text, all Freenet metadata, etc.). OTOH, a lot of data would not benifit. So, I say make it a CLI option to compress before

[freenet-devl] DefCon

2001-05-05 Thread Ian Clarke
Anyone planning on going to DefCon this year? I am just wondering whether Freenet will be represented there Ian. PGP signature

Re: [freenet-devl] no client metadata in 0.4 CHKs?

2001-05-06 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:36:22AM +0100, Adam Langley wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 05:05:19PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: Metadata for CHKs can be stored in a separate document. As mentioned, this would double the time required to retrieve these documents, and since I anticipate

[freenet-devl] Unclearness in FCP doc

2001-05-06 Thread Ian Clarke
The FCP doc is somewhat unclear about what happens with metadata (ie. is it prepended to the data? what format does it take?). Perhaps an example should be given with MIME-type metadata.. Ian. PGP signature

Re: [freenet-devl] no client metadata in 0.4 CHKs?

2001-05-06 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 05:11:32PM -0500, Scott Gregory Miller wrote: I disagree, this means that a redirect would be required just to insert a small image into Freenet if we wanted to associated a MIME-type with it. That would (on average) double the time required to retrieve the image.

Re: [freenet-devl] Unclearness in FCP doc

2001-05-06 Thread Ian Clarke
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:12:32AM +1200, David McNab wrote: From: Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] The FCP doc is somewhat unclear about what happens with metadata (ie. is it prepended to the data? what format does it take?). Perhaps an example should be given with MIME-type metadata.. Hmm

[freenet-devl] cleaning up the client interfaces

2001-05-06 Thread Ian Clarke
So right now things are a-little messy with client apps. Some talk to the node using Freenet's encrypted protocol, some use FCP, some are plugins for the node, and others use XML-RPC. I think that some standardization is in-order. The Whiterose approach is that the node itself speaks two

Re: [freenet-devl] cleaning up the client interfaces

2001-05-06 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:05:46PM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote: Read the list archives. Don't you think I have anything better to do ;-) Ok, I'll do anything for our favorite rock star.. oh dear, this is going to stick isn't it. Yes, Ian, there's already a simple plug-in API in 0.4 that allows

Re: [freenet-devl] no client metadata in 0.4 CHKs?

2001-05-07 Thread Ian Clarke
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:07:51PM -0500, Brandon wrote: There is no expense in requesting an additional file if the files are requested simultaneously, at least no expense worth mentioning. There is if one of them has been dropped - and how will you know what metadata file to request before

Re: [freenet-devl] no client metadata in 0.4 CHKs?

2001-05-08 Thread Ian Clarke
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:40:14AM -0500, Brandon wrote: Really, the only reason not to put the embed the metadata key is that it will make CHKs longer. I don't see this as being a serious problem, or even noticable at all. But by that logic, why select metadata as a special case - it is

Re: [freenet-devl] Windows installer bugfix release is out

2001-05-08 Thread Ian Clarke
you should announce these things to the web mailing list so that the translators can do their thing. Ian. On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 09:38:01PM +0200, Sebastian Sp?th wrote: OK, here is the deal: http://download.sourceforge.net/freenet/Freenet_setup0.3.9.1-1.exe is out (sorry for introducing

Re: [freenet-devl] no client metadata in 0.4 CHKs?

2001-05-09 Thread Ian Clarke
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:15:44PM -0500, Brandon wrote: Appending the metadata key to the CHK strikes me as an inelegant solution to a non-problem. It has already been generally agreed that there are two problems which have to be solved. Only one solution to these two problems has been

Re: [freenet-devl] Bug Report - 0.3.9.1 - FCP generates bad keypair

2001-05-12 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 06:44:11PM -0500, Mathew Ryden wrote: Actually it was a deficiency in the FCP specs. GenerateSVKKeypair returns a keypair without the last three bytes -- the keysize and keytype. This was not accidental, although the docs are lacking in what exactly is returned. So the

Re: [freenet-devl] Bug Report - 0.3.9.1 - FCP generates bad keypair

2001-05-13 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:10:40PM -0500, Mathew Ryden wrote: The problem is that 0.3 also has the size (i guess). That means that a call to GenerateSVKKeypair would have to take in a file so it would know the size and encode that in correctly. It's impossible to do it in this method cleanly,

Re: [freenet-devl] Bug Report - 0.3.9.1 - FCP generates bad keypair

2001-05-13 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 10:07:58AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: I suspect that the size in question is the size of the key rather than the size of the data. ...or maybe not... Ian. PGP signature

[freenet-devl] OT: A Robust Dining Cryptographer's Ring

2001-05-14 Thread Ian Clarke
A DC or Dining Cryptographers ring is a way that a number of nodes on a network can form a ring that works like ethernet, where anyone on the ring can broadcast information to the others but without betraying their identity. This can work over TCP/IP or any other communication protocol. Scott

[freenet-devl] Re: OT: A Robust Dining Cryptographer's Ring

2001-05-14 Thread Ian Clarke
, Ian Clarke wrote: A DC or Dining Cryptographers ring is a way that a number of nodes on a network can form a ring that works like ethernet, where anyone on the ring can broadcast information to the others but without betraying their identity. This can work over TCP/IP or any other

[freenet-devl] Re: OT: A Robust Dining Cryptographer's Ring

2001-05-14 Thread Ian Clarke
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:11:25PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: transmission), this dramatically reduces the problem, in fact, if the quiet data rates are sufficiently low, then they are insignificant and you only get a 200% increase in data-flow during busy periods Actually, less than

Re: [freenet-devl] FCP Layer #2 and beyond...

2001-05-15 Thread Ian Clarke
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:29:21PM -0400, Mark J. Roberts wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2001, Ian Clarke wrote: For those who think that layer #2 should be a front-end to layer #1, all you are doing is adding unnescessary bloat. Any smart implementation of layer #2 will interface directly

Re: [freenet-devl] FCP Layer #2 and beyond...

2001-05-15 Thread Ian Clarke
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 07:10:04PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You people are yammering about layers. ' WHERE THE FUCK IS THE DEFINITION OF THESE LAYERS!!! Layer #1 - FCP as it is currently defined Layer #2 - Metadata handling built into FCP Layer #3 - Stacks Ian. PGP signature

Re: [freenet-devl] Integrating Whiterose into website

2001-05-15 Thread Ian Clarke
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:49:06PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: In an attempt to integrate Whiterose into CVS, s/cvs/the website Ian. PGP signature

Re: [freenet-devl] FCP Layer #2 and beyond...

2001-05-16 Thread Ian Clarke
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:21:56PM -0500, Brandon wrote: If you can't come to an agreement on the philosophy of FPC, you might consider switching to XML-RPC, which has a different design philosophy closer to the one which you're espousing. I think there's room for multiple design philosophies

Re: [freenet-devl] FCP Layer #2 and beyond...

2001-05-16 Thread Ian Clarke
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:59:11PM +0100, Adam Langley wrote: I really don't think that the FCP parsing times are too great - certainly not compared to the network lag times. If people want stunning performance they can use FCP or FNP. The cost of maintaining all the different interfaces (in

Re: [freenet-devl] Check this out...

2001-05-18 Thread Ian Clarke
Theo mentioned Need To Know on p241 of O'Reilly's P2P book. This is a joke implying that this is their claim to fame. Sheesh. Ian. On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:43:50PM +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote: WTF does that mean? On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:44:05PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: http

[freenet-devl] Donation feedback now in place

2001-05-20 Thread Ian Clarke
Through a rather Heath Robinson combination of procmail, python, ssh, and PHP, I have updated the donations page at: http://freenetproject.org/index.php?page=donations To show the current PayPal account balance, and also list recent donors to the Freenet project (giving them the option of

[freenet-devl] Quiet

2001-05-20 Thread Ian Clarke
Wow, this list has got pretty quite the last few days, is this because it is exam season or something? Ian. PGP signature

Re: [freenet-devl] Some Questions on SimpleClient

2001-05-21 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:11:46PM -0700, John George wrote: I have been working this weekend on python code for an XML-RPC client. I downloaded the source tarball and used it. I am sure there is a large amount of deltas from the source tarball so where should I look for what is being

Re: [freenet-devl] For Ian Clarke

2001-05-23 Thread Ian Clarke
Taking the ethernet approach to communication Ian. On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:35:12PM +0100, Peter Barr wrote: Hi Ian, I wonder if you remember me. My name is Peter Barr and I used to go out with Rachel Gibson who lived in your block in first year (she says hi by the way). I saw you

Re: [freenet-devl] be the 1337357 geek on your block, beta test 0.4

2001-05-25 Thread Ian Clarke
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 05:56:32AM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote: fred 0.4 seems to be able to function sufficiently well for FCP now. Groovy - I can set up a inform0.4.php script for testing of 0.4 (or we could just implement the announcement stuff). Ian. PGP signature

Re: [freenet-devl] be the 1337357 geek on your block, beta test 0.4

2001-05-25 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 12:16:56AM +1000, Emil Mikulic wrote: We may want to provide a fast C store generator with the installers. You may want to provide a fast (and low memory footprint) node with the intallers, too. Whiterose is on the way ;-) But seriously, 0.4 has a number of

Re: [freenet-devl] be the 1337357 geek on your block, beta test 0.4

2001-05-25 Thread Ian Clarke
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:32:19AM -0700, Mr. Bad wrote: I'm going to start beta-testing 0.4 this wknd. How confident are oh-point-four-ers that it's getting to be time to merge 0.4 back from experimental into the main trunk? Hmmm, we could do this, and move further improvements to 0.3 to

[freenet-devl] Freenet 0.4 smoke test harness

2001-05-25 Thread Ian Clarke
I have been thinking about a piece of Java code which, when run, would do some test inserts and requests via FProxy, FCP, and XML-RPC. This could be run prior to a release, or even executed automatically as part of a daily build process, and would smoke test a freenet node. The same code should

[freenet-devl] Sourceforge shell problems

2001-05-25 Thread Ian Clarke
From the sourceforge website: (2001-05-24) PLEASE NOTE: SourceForge project shell services are offline pending completion of an unscheduled maintenance event. The SourceForge team is working to ensure that shell services are restored in as timely a manner as is possible. No ETA has yet

[freenet-devl] Fwd: Some musings on Freenet

2001-05-26 Thread Ian Clarke
This guy seems to have some interesting ideas about improving Freenet performance: - Forwarded message from Ray Heasman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Ray Heasman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Some useful (I hope) musings on freenet Hi Ian, I was

Re: [freenet-devl] Fwd: Some musings on Freenet

2001-05-26 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 12:27:55PM -0500, Brandon wrote: I've been thinking on the caching problem recently and it seems to me that it is is indeed disadvantageous to cache aggresively because files cached on the edge of the network have a decreased probability of being found by an

[freenet-devl] wreckless but fun

2001-05-27 Thread Ian Clarke
So one thing we might consider is making 0.3.9.2 incorporate the probabilistic caching that we have been talking about. It is fairly unanimous that such an approach is a good idea, would be quick to implement, and it could be ages if we wait for someone to get around to simulating it before we

[freenet-devl] Sourceforge Shell access back online

2001-05-28 Thread Ian Clarke
Shell access to sourceforge is now working again, check your email INBOX, you may need to change your sourceforge password. Ian. PGP signature

Re: [freenet-devl] Re: Fwd: Some musings on Freenet

2001-05-28 Thread Ian Clarke
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 12:45:26AM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote: Perhaps, but the node would basically fail on every request, except in the unlikely event that it receives a request for the data in which it wants to specialise - it would be a lottery. Nah, it could employ a drifting algorithm

[freenet-devl] Freeweb comments

2001-05-28 Thread Ian Clarke
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...? At a more general level, I would really encourage the FreeWeb guys to get rid of that whole DNS business, it complicates

[freenet-devl] Interesting publicity

2001-05-29 Thread Ian Clarke
http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/viewdb.cfm?uc_full_date=20010528uc_comic=dbuc_daction=X Ian. PGP signature

Re: [freenet-devl] Freeweb comments

2001-05-29 Thread Ian Clarke
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:10:29AM +1200, David McNab wrote: It does create the problem that if people start passing around www.xxx.free URLs then these can only be used with Freeweb. Freeweb should probably just interpret http://localhost:8081/ requests through the proxy, it isn't as

Re: [freenet-devl] Freeweb comments

2001-05-29 Thread Ian Clarke
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 07:20:16PM -0400, eigenman wrote: These arguments are dry and outdated. Installing a program is not a massive task. No, but writing and maintaining a piece of software for multiple web browsers, and multiple platforms, and persuading newbies to change their browser

Re: [freenet-devl] Freeweb comments

2001-05-29 Thread Ian Clarke
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 07:24:54PM -0400, eigenman wrote: Ok touche. Although the dot protocol is still nice such as xxx.yyy.zzz.free. What? They are the same, except David's protocol prepends www. and appends .free. How that makes things simpler is beyond me. Ian. PGP signature

Re: [freenet-devl] Freeweb comments

2001-05-29 Thread Ian Clarke
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:28:31AM +0100, Dave Hooper wrote: What's stopping David from doing this anyway, with or without the consent of The Freenet Corporation? A desire to write good software. Ian. PGP signature

Re: [freenet-devl] Freeweb comments

2001-05-29 Thread Ian Clarke
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 08:04:38PM -0400, eigenman wrote: You do use HTTP directly. The WWW is HTTP. But Ian just told me that KSK@ is the simplest choice for easy naming on the freenet protocol. He sugested this as an equivaliant to .free naming. If this is insecure then freenet is

Re: [freenet-devl] Freeweb comments

2001-05-29 Thread Ian Clarke
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:02:27PM +1200, David McNab wrote: Have a closer look at FreeWeb. It may not have been noticed that it's easy to use FreeWeb in a way which complies completely with the existing standards - this was true even in the first prototype. I have looked closely at FreeWeb

Re: [freenet-devl] Freeweb comments

2001-05-29 Thread Ian Clarke
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:05:16PM +1200, David McNab wrote: I have not heard a single example of this. If true, then it should be considered, and the MSK protocol may even need to be modified, but it really doesn't mean that we should convert to your .free protocol. Try wget, it

Re: [freenet-devl] Freeweb comments

2001-05-29 Thread Ian Clarke
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:09:59PM +1200, David McNab wrote: BUT, the MSK@SSK@... is *not* spoofable. KSK@blah is spoofable. FreeWeb allow MSK@SSK@... - it looks up the KSK every time to avoid nasty long URLs. Freenet is secure if you use MSK@SSK@ Again... groan... FreeWeb publishes and

Re: [freenet-devl] cvs notifications

2001-05-30 Thread Ian Clarke
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:47:52PM +0200, Sebastian Sp?th wrote: Hi all, you can subscribe to the cvs change notification lists now. It is not spam proof or moderated yet as it has to allow posts from @users.sourgeforge.net mails. Does anybody can help me with a matching regex expression

Re: [freenet-devl] Freeweb comments

2001-05-30 Thread Ian Clarke
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:07:59PM -0400, Benjamin Coates wrote: How is freenet not a protocol with similar standing to HTTP and FTP? I would say that's exactly what it is... Because it *USES* HTTP for communcation with the local node, it is not a replacement for HTTP, and there is no need

Re: [freenet-devl] interesting article

2001-05-31 Thread Ian Clarke
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:31:12AM -0700, Mr. Bad wrote: JM == Jamie Morken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JM Hi all, Here is a new scientist article on freenet's JM development. Looks like Intel will be using Freenet JM (opensource?) JM

Re: [freenet-devl] Dev proposal - Fred on Windows configurator

2001-06-02 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 02:58:36PM +1200, David McNab wrote: I'm willing to write a complete Freenet node configurator as a native Windows GUI app. Good idea, might I suggest that we define a standard format to specify command line options, maybe in XML, which would look like this: section

[freenet-devl] Freenet - The Next Generation : Fuzzy Searching

2001-06-02 Thread Ian Clarke
It seems to have been a long time since we had some more long-term discussions about Freenet, and features for the future. While it is good that we have focussed on more short-term issues (hell, we have *users* now!), I think it is about time that a few people started concentrating on

Re: [freenet-devl] Freenet - The Next Generation : Fuzzy Searching

2001-06-03 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:42:06PM -0700, coderman wrote: In the aardvark example, I am led to believe that the keys are hash values, and that lexographic distance is determined by numeric distance between the two. Meaning, roughly, that a key with all 'a's would have a numericaly

Re: [freenet-devl] Freenet - The Next Generation : Fuzzy Searching

2001-06-03 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 03:40:58PM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote: 1) is an inevitable consequence of any improvement to Freenet functionality, True, but this is something that can be cleanly separated from the requirements for implementing a Freenet node. Which is essentially semantics. and

Re: [freenet-devl] Freenet - The Next Generation : Fuzzy Searching

2001-06-03 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 10:05:36PM +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote: Another reason for seperation is that you could make the resulting URIs protocol independant, to work for people who want to share files directly (ftp or http) as well as via Freenet. (For example one could already hack a

Re: [freenet-devl] Freenet - The Next Generation : Fuzzy Searching

2001-06-03 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 05:40:16PM -0400, Benjamin Coates wrote: Yeah, once you put a search entry onto a popular keyword, it would stay around, relevant or not. Even reputation filtering wouldn't help that, since it would be applied (by necessity) at the client after requesting all the

Re: [freenet-devl] Freenet - The Next Generation : Fuzzy Searching

2001-06-03 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 03:10:01PM -0700, coderman wrote: Who would be responsible for the unrequest? The requestor (the clients should be designed to make this easy, or automatic in some circumstances). Crypto would ensure that you can only unrequest your own requests. Could this be used

Re: [freenet-devl] Freenet - The Next Generation : Fuzzy Searching

2001-06-03 Thread Ian Clarke
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:50:23AM -0400, Mark J. Roberts wrote: I have no idea how the unrequest actually works. I'm under the impression that it works per-node and not per-reply, i.e., The node who sent this response is evil! Punish it! Nope, an unrequest simply undoes the effect of a

[freenet-devl] Couldn't read Mapfile...?

2001-06-04 Thread Ian Clarke
I keep getting: Network Error: Freenet.KeyException: Couldn't read MSK Mapfile: With recent CVS on both Snarfoo and GJs - is anyone else experiencing problems? Ian. PGP signature

[freenet-devl] Holy sh1t

2001-06-05 Thread Ian Clarke
http://freenetproject.org/index.php?page=donations Make sure you are sitting down, and check the recent amonymous donations near the bottom of the page. I have emailed this guy to make sure his donation was intentional. Ian. PGP signature

Re: [freenet-devl] Exponential Key Index Insertion

2001-06-05 Thread Ian Clarke
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:17:12AM +1200, David McNab wrote: Perhaps this is way ancient, but in case it's not, here goes. I just ran a simulation prog (see below) for comparing linear versus It is an old idea, but it is great that someone is looking into an implementation. Actually, I

[freenet-devl] Another possible bug

2001-06-05 Thread Ian Clarke
I have noticed with recent CVS that FProxy is slow to return pages, and sometimes it hangs for ages without returning an error message. Now it may be something todo with my HTL 100, combined with QueryRestarted messages coming from somewhere. I am getting suspicious that QueryRestarted messages

Re: [freenet-devl] Another possible bug

2001-06-06 Thread Ian Clarke
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:48:10AM +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote: On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:44:44PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: I have noticed with recent CVS that FProxy is slow to return pages, and sometimes it hangs for ages without returning an error message. Now it may be something todo

Re: [freenet-devl] Another possible bug

2001-06-06 Thread Ian Clarke
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:24:52PM -0400, Gianni Johansson wrote: Problem 1: Coarse grained lock in MapHandler.lookup() In the current implementation every request that goes through an MSK has to acquire the lock for the synchronized static function MapHandler.lookup(). This means that

[freenet-devl] Fwd: [freenet-support] SLOW!!! Why two nodes does not learn each other

2001-06-06 Thread Ian Clarke
FProxy definitely seems to be less healthy these days, GJ pointed out some obvious potential problems. I will do some investigating this-evening, others should too. Ian. - Forwarded message from z08544 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: z08544 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

[freenet-devl] Fwd: [freenet-support] RE: SLOW!!! Why two nodes does not learn each other

2001-06-06 Thread Ian Clarke
More - it looks like FProxy's mapfile handling is the culprit here again. Ian. - Forwarded message from z08544 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: z08544 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Support@Freenetproject. Org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [freenet-support] RE: SLOW!!! Why two nodes does not learn each

Re: [freenet-devl] Another possible bug

2001-06-06 Thread Ian Clarke
Great, I think that this warrents our 0.3.9.2 release. I am tempted to reccomend that we incorporate Oskar's proposal for probabilistic caching of documents (higher probability closer to the origin of the request) which should have a beneficial effect on document longevity. Of course, in an

Re: [freenet-devl] Another possible bug

2001-06-06 Thread Ian Clarke
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:07:10PM -0500, thelema wrote: I'm all for trying out things that could help the network, but I don't like jumping in head first. Not to mention I'd imagine lots of people aren't going to upgrade to this newest version, leaving us in a situation with a mixed node

Re: [freenet-devl] Freenet DOS defense strategy???

2001-06-07 Thread Ian Clarke
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:52:37PM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote: I have a new suggestion for this: just count the number of hits on each key and call that P, and whenever P reaches a certain limit, delete the key. Er - I am probably misunderstanding you, but wouldn't this create a trivial attack

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >