[volunteergrid2-l] open gateway taken down

[Shawn Willden]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Jody Harris <jharris at harrisdev.com> wrote:

> I took down http://bigpig.org:3457


That's good.  I wondered if having that up was advisable.  I've found that I
actually can put open gateways up and not have them end up Googlable, by
choosing a non-default port and then -- of course -- never publishing the
information anywhere.  I'm not sure if the port even matters.

Since I was unable to find any documentation on disallowing indexing of the
> web gateway in the Tahoe docs, I decided to take down the gateway until I
> can find a way to make it less discoverable.
>

Beyond indexing, we really need a way to password protect access to the
welcome page.  But Tahoe lacks this at the moment.  Some people have set up
reverse proxies and implemented password protection there.

-- 
Shawn
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