[volunteergrid2-l] New Node

[Jody Harris]

Well, I was being facetious. I will pursue my snide line of thought with,
"What is Microsoft Internet Explorer, and what is it used for?" I seem to
remember long ago some poorly written, buggy, web-related bloatware that may
have gone by that name.
----
- Think carefully.


On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Brad Rupp <bradrupp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, Microsoft Internet Explorer.
>
> I was just about to create a new thread on this.  I might as well continue
> to use this one.  Will anyone have a broken heart if they cannot use IE to
> access the gateway nodes?  Firefox and Chrome would work fine.  I personally
> don't care and two others have stated that they don't care.  Any other
> thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad
>
>
> On 1/31/2011 12:06 PM, Jody Harris wrote:
>
>> Weighing on on IE: "What's IE?" ;-)
>> ----
>> - Think carefully.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Brad Rupp <bradrupp at gmail.com
>> <mailto:bradrupp at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    On 1/31/2011 7:28 AM, Shawn Willden wrote:
>>
>>        On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Brad Rupp <bradrupp at gmail.com
>>        <mailto:bradrupp at gmail.com>
>>        <mailto:bradrupp at gmail.com <mailto:bradrupp at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>
>>            That is a great idea Shawn.  Done.
>>
>>
>>        Cool!
>>
>>        One suggestion.  Can you set up another node (with storage server
>>        disabled) whose tub port is firewalled and make that node's
>>        welcome page
>>        accessible but protected behind a proxy?
>>
>>        The reason it's a good idea to set up a poorly-connected node
>>        like that
>>        is because then any other poorly-connected nodes will show as
>>        red.  The
>>        way Tahoe works is that if either one of a pair of nodes can
>>        reach the
>>        other, then they have bidirectional communication.  But we
>>        really want
>>        all nodes to be fully visible, so to verify that we need to check
>> it
>>        from a node that is not fully visible.  I'm not sure if I
>>        explained that
>>        well.
>>
>>
>>    I can look into this, but it is going to be a bit before I can get
>>    to it.
>>
>>
>>
>>            - I am unable to host this over SSL right now.  I don't
>>        think that
>>            should be a big deal.
>>
>>
>>        Not huge, but it would be nice.  What's the obstacle?  A
>> self-signed
>>        cert should be fine.
>>
>>
>>    I'm running another app over SSL.  Virtual hosting under Apache only
>>    supports one cert for all virtual hosts.  The subject name would be
>>    wrong and cause a browser warning on top of those you get with self
>>    signed certs.
>>
>>
>>
>>            If we don't care about IE, I can get rid of the vg2 mapping.
>>              Firefox and Chrome work fine either way.
>>
>>
>>        I certainly don't care about IE.
>>
>>
>>    I don't care about IE either.  I will send another e-mail out about
>>    this so we can get a consensus.
>>
>>
>>        --
>>
>>        Shawn
>>
>>
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