[volunteergrid2-l] open gateway taken down

[Jody Harris]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Shawn Willden <shawn at willden.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

I just assumed that Google would eventually discover it. I may change the
port and bring it back up later.


>
> 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.
>
> Yeah, that would be sweet. If there were some good, clear documentation on
that available, I would take a look at it. I've seen it eluded to on the
 dev-list, but I've never seen any documentation.

> --
> Shawn
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