Thomas A. de Ruiter and Joost P. Vermeer
When publishing something using Freenet there is one trivial problem that annoys me the most: it isn't accesible for people not running a Freenet node. Many of my local friends are part of that group. But most of them have access to the World Wide Web. If I would publishe something using Freenet I would like it if they don't have to install a Freenet node to view my pages. For most of them the investment of installing a Freenet node would be to big. So I would like a way to make it possible to access Freenet pages from computers with webaccess but whithout a Freenet node. Technicaly it is possible to set up a public fproxy. However it wouldn't help getting more people participating in Freenet. But I brainstormed about a simple solution: what if there would be some public web to Freenet gateway crippled with banners telling users that they should install a local Freenet node to get rid of those banners. So far the idea.
I'm not the person who says: "Nice idea, lets hack it together right away." But when I told Thomas about my idea he did. He implemented a simple PHP wrapper for fproxy. That script does the following: When a user requests a document from Freenet it gives back a page telling the user that he/she must wait 2 minutes and then reload. With that page a cookie containing the time frame of 10 minutes the user may access Freenet through the gateway.
http://fg.de-ruiter.cx/pw2fgp-0.0.2.php.gz
(2001-05-27)pw2fgp-0.0.1.php.gz
(2001-05-26)URL: http://huizen.dds.nl/~df5ea/pw2fgp.html
Author: Joost P. Vermeer <df5ea@dds.nl>
Last revision: 2001-06-07