On 2/7/2011 3:41 PM, Jody Harris wrote: > I know that this has been brought up before, and I know that I've > discussed it as well as posted a ticket on it before, but as a user of > VolunteerGrid2, I'm asking again for a "safe web gateway." > > At this point, we have two web-facing "gateways" (WUI interfaces), but > we have been forced to wrap them behind proxies in order to keep our > introducer furl secret. As it stands, there is no way that I can share a > capability with anyone outside of the VolunteerGrid2 community. This > severely limits the usefulness of Tahoe and our grid.
I would think restricting access to the "gateway" is also a measure of restraining you from burdening the VolunteerGrid2 community with downloads by unknown 3rd parties. If I was a member of VG2, then I would be against any party enabling anonymous access to the grid. I see that as akin to letting you upload files to my webserver and you handing out URLs and you starting a warez site -- it's worse with the grid because it would be difficult to account for who was responsible for the resource consumption with an anonymous gateway. However, your idea about a "safe web gateway" is something that I had a desire for as well, for my own personal grid. In that case, I am only consuming my own resources by making caps known to the internet at-large -- no different than hosting files on a webserver. Toward that end, I setup a proxy such that path "/" required authorization and "/uri" and "/file" did not. Unless I am mistaken, that gives anonymous access to directories and files on my grid without giving access to create or upload files or to servers. -- Scott Dial [email protected] [email protected] -- Scott Dial [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
