[volunteergrid2-l] Making our web-facing gateways NOT a rope around our necks

[Jody Harris]

Interesting....

I see now that the problem with web/welcome.xhtml is that it exposes the
introducer furl, which can be remedied easily enough be removing ~10 lines
of code.

There still remains the problem with the uri .... interface, which exposes
the ability to store files into the grid even if the forms were removed from
the welcome.xhtml interface.

So, really Tahoe-LAFS does not support sharing files unless the owners are
willing to expose their full grid to the world. Solutions to this problem
would necessarily be workarounds outside the use case of the Tahoe-LAFS
developers.

I'm cool with that as long as it's clearly stated from the beginning.

Am I on the right track?

jody
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On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Zooko O'Whielacronx <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:

> > It might be helpful if more people created Trac accounts and commented on
> > this ticket -- I don't know.
>
> As a tahoe-lafs developer, I definitely appreciate feedback from users
> on the tahoe-dev mailing list, and I appreciate feedback on the trac
> even more.
>
> Of course, the fastest way to get a feature like this one implemented
> is to do the work to implement it and submit a patch. I'll be happy to
> mentor anyone who wants to do that. The first step is to get everyone
> on the same page about what behavior would be desirable and acceptable
> to everyone, which is what the #860 ticket has accomplished.
>
> Regards,
>
> Zooko
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