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

[Florent Daignière (NextGen$)]

* Dave Baker <dbkr at freenetproject.org> [2006-11-01 21:41:12]:

> On Wednesday 01 November 2006 21:24, Florent Daignière wrote:
> > * 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.
> 
> Ah - interesting. Doesn't make pasting keys into the address bar work (Firefox 
> interprets it as username 'ksk' at site 'gpl.txt', Konqueror thinks I want to 
> send an email...) but it does safely jail stuff inside Freenet. Thing is 
> though that we're trying to prevent stuff being accidentally sent to a search 
> engine, ie. we're more trying to defend the people who haven't gone to the 
> trouble of setting Freenet as their web proxy (and then unsetting it when 
> they want to surf the web, then setting it again...)
> 
> Dave

Using a special browser for surfing freenet makes sense ... with disabled
JS/java/activeX/Flash and is probably a good idea anyway.

NextGen$
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