[tahoe-dev] friendnet introduction

[Nathan]

The proposed introduction UI sounds great.  Once we get it working as
described, I'd really like to streamline the flow for greatest user
friendliness.

The rest of this email is a browser-webui integration feature
proposal, which is quite a tangent for the Tahoe project.  However, it
would be a boon for it (as well as many other apps):

I'd really like to see a URL standard for localhost web interfaces
that was service-name oriented, so that instead:

http://localhost:1337/foo/bar

-we could use:

service://tahoe/foo/bar

-which all browsers would understand.

If a service named Tahoe wasn't installed, the browser would inform
the user when they click on that link (possibly directing them to a
browser extension page).

Compare that to the current situation where we must guess the port
number, and if we guess incorrect or they aren't running Tahoe, they
get a cryptic message about "the server is not responding because the
network is down, you typed the address wrong, or your firewall is
misconfigured."

The browser would have a configurable mapping from localservice names
to some means of connecting to an http server port for each.

Something like: Service 'tahoe' is at localhost:1234 and can be
launched by running "allmydata-tahoe start".

Furthermore, there could be an installation/configuration interface,
such that when you run the browser after installing Tahoe for the
first time, the browser pops up a dialog saying: "Would you like to
enable a new service called 'tahoe'?"

Maybe I'll go bug the Firefox folks about this.  ;-)


Nathan



On 9/7/07, Zooko O'Whielacronx At Work <zooko at allmydata.com> wrote:
> Folks:
>
> Here are some notes about the intended user interface for introduction.
>
> When you install and run a Tahoe node, the welcome page has a form
> that says "In order to invite someone to connect to your Tahoe node,
> enter your pet name for them here: _______, and click this button:
> [Invite].".
>
> When you click the [Invite] button it produces a page which contains
> text that you should cut and paste and send to your friend.  The text
> says something like:
>
> """
> I invite you to connect to my Tahoe node.  To accept this invitation,
> click on the link below:
>
> http://localhost:9898/accept/
> xextf3eap44o3wi27mf7ehiur6wvhzr6207.7.153.180:56677,127.0.0.1:56677
>
> If clicking on the link doesn't work, please paste it into your Tahoe
> node in the "accept an invitation" form.
> """
>
> There is also a form for accepting, which says:
>
> """
> To accept an invitation to connect to someone else's Tahoe node,
> enter the invitation URL here: ________, and click this button:
> [Accept].
> """
>
> Now whenever you have extended an invitation to a friend and they
> have accepted your invitation, then they appear in your list of
> friends.  This list is a table that looks something like this:
>
> """
> Pet name / nodeid / IP addr / total disk space used
> -------- / ------ / ------- / ---------------------
> Bob / hrtshaxsf12o / 207.7.131.41 / 2 GiB
> Carol / usnxjuds4oao / 209.40.195.45 / 10 GiB
> """
>
> Okay, how does that sound so far?  :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Zooko
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