[tahoe-dev] a distributed web app -- tahoe tiddly wiki

Ben Laurie ben at links.org
Mon Apr 28 11:59:31 PDT 2008


zooko wrote:
> Folks:
> 
> Here is a version of Tiddly Wiki which has been slightly patched to  
> save itself with an HTTP PUT back to its web location instead of  
> writing itself to a local file.
> 
> http://tahoebs1.allmydata.com:8123/uri/URI%3ADIR2% 
> 3A5pg4nmduniy2va6zgzz4wewvoi% 
> 3Amsrwf7ty7aye4lcuheiu27b3fp6tjvvyvenz25cnficcjd7qudwq/wiki.html

This appears to be completely blank.

> You can edit it and then click "save changes" and the results of your  
> edits will be written back to the tahoe grid where other people can  
> see them and change them.
> 
> Try it!
> 
> This is the first example that I know of of a "distributed web app"  
> -- a web app with no Single Point Of Failure.
> 
> Obviously if you don't want to use the "tahoebs1.allmydata.com"  
> public web gateway, you can run a Tahoe node yourself and replace  
> "tahoebs1.allmydata.com" with "127.0.0.1".

Which leads to the problems I reported earlier.

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