[tahoe-dev] [mm] Fwd: Tahoe

[Ben Laurie]

zooko wrote:
> Ben Laurie wrote:
> 
>> So, I'm quite excited about Tahoe, and I even managed to build it
>> on FreeBSD (on which I will blog at some point soon).
>>
>> But ... the documentation sucks! I can get the web interface
>> working, but I've complete struck out on the command line.
> 
> It's a shame that the CLI has not received the benefit of nearly as  
> much work as the wapi/wui has.  I'm hoping that someone who loves  
> CLIs will take ownership of it:
> 
> http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/report/23
> 
> 
>> Seems to me I should be able to do something like, say...
>>
>> bin/tahoe ls -d http://193.133.15.7:8124/uri/ 
>> URI:DIR2:djrdkfawoqihigoett4g6auz6a:jx5mplfpwexnoqff7y5e4zjus4lidm76dc 
>> uarpct7cckorh2dpgq
>>
>> and get a directory listing. But apparently not.
>>
>> bin/tahoe:  --dir-cap must be a dir cap (or "root"), but we got
>> 'http://193.133.15.7:8124/uri/ 
>> URI:DIR2:djrdkfawoqihigoett4g6auz6a:jx5mplfpwexnoqff7y5e4zjus4lidm76dc 
>> uarpct7cckorh2dpgq'.
> 
> Ah, this isn't a problem in the CLI precisely, but in the parsing of  
> capabilities.  If your capability had started with a string matching  
> this expression:
> 
> # URIs (soon to be renamed "caps") are always allowed to come with a  
> leading
> # 'http://127.0.0.1:8123/uri/' that will be ignored.
> OPTIONALHTTPLEAD=r'(?:https?://(?:127.0.0.1|localhost):8123/uri/)?'
> 
> (code snippet from http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/src/ 
> allmydata/uri.py )
> 
> Then it would have worked just as you expected.
> 
> Perhaps that expression should be broadened to:
> 
> # URIs (soon to be renamed "caps") are always allowed to come with a  
> leading
> # HTTP string that will be ignored.
> OPTIONALHTTPLEAD=r'(?:https?://(?:[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+| 
> localhost):8123/uri/)?'
> 
> or even something like:
> 
> OPTIONALHTTPLEAD=r'(?:https?://(?:[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+|[^:]+): 
> 8123/uri/)?'
> 
> ?
> 
> 
>> so, what am I doing wrong, and how about some CLI examples somewhere?
> 
> That's a good idea.  Perhaps you could add a bit more example text into:
> 
> http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/using.html
> 
> Or is it that you didn't see using.html, and that if you had it would  
> have sufficed for an example?
> 
> 
> Thanks for the feedback!

Once this if fixed, then you need to fix all the places it assumes that 
tahoe is bound to localhost.

I just changed my setup to bind to localhost and the CLI works, at least 
for directories I created...

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