Re: Outside web access?

I am thinking of running a personal web server as a semi-public proxy alongside Freenet on the same computer. My idea is to allow outside http access to a select number of Freenet sites through through the fproxy via this server. Firstly, would this setup even work? And secondly would I be able to configure it from within Freenet to allow http requests and forwarding to and from the fproxy?

Also, I am considering using an imbedded web server of the likes of Jetty - http://jetty.mortbay.org/index.html to fulfil this purpose. The website claims that Jetty is embeddable in a wide variety of web applications, but again I seek the opinion of Freenet's experts as to whether or not it would work in this instance.

--- On Thu, 28/2/08, John Bäckstrand <[email protected]> wrote:

From: John Bäckstrand <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Tech] Outside web access?
To: stwa4647000-/[email protected], [email protected]
Date: Thursday, 28 February, 2008, 8:40 AM

Stephen Walford wrote:
> Is there any way possible for someone to access Freenet sites with a web
> browser WITHOUT first having installed the Freenet software, ie. general
> http access? If not, will future developments in Freenet facilitate this?

Not unless someone opens up a public fproxy I guess, and who would want
to? Actually I considered this not more than 8 hours ago, when thinking
about the wikileaks "takedown"/censoring. It went something like
this:

People _really_ should start using freenet for this sort of information.
The problem is that people are too lazy to install freenet "just" too

see some sensitive information. Hey, I should open up a http proxy for
freenet, and then manually add filters when government agencies start
complaining. The filtered pages would simply say: "please install
freenet to see this page, since the legal system has asked me not to
show this". The hope is that by moderating things manually, I would not
be prosecuted for anything (hopefully) and people will at least get a
chance to see information before it is banned.

Removal of domainnames though, as for wikileaks, is really not a working
measure as can be seen by the numerous alternative domain-names now up
instead. So, the internet, for the moment at least, seems to do
sort-of-fine without freenet. For this sort of information, at least.

---
John Bäckstrand
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