[tahoe-dev] Tahoe and restricting uploads

[zooko]

On Oct 7, 2008, at 14:18 PM, Benjamin R Welton wrote:

> I am pretty new to tahoe and i am looking at using it in one of the  
> projects that i am doing.

Welcome!  Please tell us more about it.  Information about things  
that Tahoe gets used for, or things that Tahoe gets considered for  
and then rejected, are valuable feedback that I am hungry for.


> One of the big questions that i have about tahoe is whether or not  
> there is a way to limit who can upload to the storage grid? I would  
> like to keep downloads unrestricted but leave uploads restricted to  
> a certain set of nodes.

As Brian explained, we don't yet have a way to do this kind of thing  
for the "Tahoe client <-> Tahoe storage server protocol" -- the  
protocol between one Tahoe node acting as client and many Tahoe nodes  
acting as storage servers, and runs over foolscap over TLS over TCP.

However, it would be easy to make a web proxy which does this for the  
"web client <-> Tahoe wapi/wui protocol" -- the protocol between any  
web client and a Tahoe node acting as "gateway" and runs over HTTP.

Regards,

Zooko
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