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

[Jody Harris]

Commenting out lines 45 and 51 of welcome.xhtml (version
1.8.2) alleviates the biggest concern of exposing the introducer and helper
furls, while still allowing the connected status to those services to be
indicated.

This, of course, does not stop "outsiders" from uploading to the grid, but
that's a different kind of problem.

j
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On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Jody Harris <jharris at harrisdev.com> wrote:

> 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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