[tahoe-dev] VolunteerGrid2 desperately needs a "safe gateway"

David-Sarah Hopwood david-sarah at jacaranda.org
Tue Feb 8 03:18:15 UTC 2011


On 2011-02-08 02:42, Scott Dial wrote:
> However, your idea about a "safe web gateway" is something that I had a
> desire for as well, for my own personal grid. In that case, I am only
> consuming my own resources by making caps known to the internet at-large
> -- no different than hosting files on a webserver. Toward that end, I
> setup a proxy such that path "/" required authorization and "/uri" and
> "/file" did not.
> 
> Unless I am mistaken, that gives anonymous access to directories and
> files on my grid without giving access to create or upload files or to
> servers.

The ability to PUT to paths starting with /uri gives upload authority.

-- 
David-Sarah Hopwood  ⚥  http://davidsarah.livejournal.com

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