[freenet-chat] (amended) HOWTO: firefox 'freenet:' protocol handling

[David McNab]

Florent Daignière (NextGen$) wrote:
> * David McNab <david at rebirthing.co.nz> [2006-05-08 14:10:31]:
> 
>> Ian Clarke wrote:
>>> On 7 May 2006, at 18:04, David McNab wrote:
>>>> Ian Clarke wrote:
>>>>> So websites that use this will only work with users that have Firefox
>>>>> and have installed the plugin?
>>>> ...
>>>>>  Isn't it preferable to encourage people
>>>>> to use the normal http://127.0.0.1:8888/ prefix?
>>>> Seems we've got two imperfect options:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Dump user into a sea of broken links if they choose not to have their
>>>> fproxy at 127.0.0.1:8888
>>> In which case the user will have some idea of why they are getting
>>> broken links, as they will have made a conscious decision to change
>>> their fproxy address.
>>>
>>>> versus
>>>>
>>>> 2) Dump user into a sea of broken links if they choose not to use an
>>>> extensible open-source browser
>>> Its not our job to punish the 90% of web users that don't agree with
>>> your preferred choice of web browser.  Worse, we would also be punishing
>>> those people that do agree with your choice of web browser, but who
>>> don't have the appropriate plugin.
>>>
>>>> Both scenarios suck, but IMHO the latter sucks a lot less.
>>> Both scenarios are similar in terms of the poor user experience, the
>>> differentiator is which is more likely.  Going with freenet:-style urls
>>> is much more likely to lead to scenario 2 than sticking with our current
>>> approach is to lead to scenario 1.
>> /me stifles the temptation to write an fproxyproxy
> 
> It exists ! :)
> 
> Try to set up your browser to use fproxy as an HTTP proxy server ;)
> 
> IMHO it's even better in term of security as you're SURE that no
> external link could be loaded by your browser.
> 
> NextGen$

The latest version of SwitchProxy for Firefox allows 2-click proxy
switching, so I've already got my fproxy configured in there.

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Cheers
David