[Tech] How to register USK@/etc in mozilla?

[Florent Daignière (NextGen$)]

* Dave Baker <dbkr at freenetproject.org> [2006-11-01 21:21:54]:

> On Wednesday 01 November 2006 21:04, toad wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:32:47AM +1300, Phillip Hutchings wrote:
> > > On 11/2/06, Ian Clarke <ian at locut.us> wrote:
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> > > >I don't want to encourage people to do this and then assume that they
> > > >can include href="USK at ..." type hyperlinks in web pages.  Any link to
> > > >content on Freenet should be prefixed with http://127.0.0.1:8888/ -
> > > >this may not be pretty but it works without any special browser
> > > >plugins or configuration, and that is far more important.
> > > >
> > > >Ian.
> > > 
> > > Is the node smart enough to change 127.0.0.1 to whatever interface
> > > you're accessing it from? Some people access it across a LAN...
> > 
> > Generally the node doesn't need to know.
> >
> 
> Surely the point is that if this URL is coming from a web page then it won't 
> have been near the node, and so the node couldn't change it if it wanted to.
> 
> > Yes, but currently if you paste a key (e.g. from Frost, or an email)
> > into the browser it feeds it into Google. This is a bad thing!
> 
> Such is the price we pay for using an existing application that's not designed 
> with anonymity in mind. The only thing I can suggest is a shipping a Firefox 
> plugin that plonks a little 'lock to Freenet' button on the toolbar that 
> makes sure your browser can only access Freenet content and not send any 
> request out to the Big Bad World. It would presumably make the browser 
> inerpret anything you put into the address bar as a Freenet key too. Does 
> that suggest that our users should really be using Firefox as opposed to any 
> other (non IE) browser? Perhaps. Are we willing to live with it? Is it worth 
> the time to develop and maintain it?
> 
> Dave

Isn't it re-inventing the wheel ? :)

You just have to configure your browser to use fproxy as an HTTP proxy.

NextGen$
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