Introduction
This is FCPproxy,
it is a part of the Freenet
FCPtools
package, and allows you to access Freenet through your web browser.
Essentially, it simulates a new Internet domain called '.free',
so you can surf sites on .free in the same way as you surf the mainstream
Web.
FreeWeb works much like the old FProxy, except that it:
- Is faster and more reliable than FProxy
- You can use it full-time as a regular http proxy
server
- It has a switchable anonymity filter that's
more accurate than FProxy
- Any hits to URLs beginning with 'http://free/'
get treated as Freenet requests, and passed to Freenet, while
other URLs are (web block permitting) forwarded to the mainstream
web
- For your anonymity, the web block is
normally on. It will stay on until or unless you disable
it by making a request to 'http://free/noblock?password',
where password is the web block password you specified
with the '-w' command-line option. For more information
on this, run fwproxy -h
- You can set your browser to use FwProxy as a
proxy server.
You can return to this page at any time by pointing your browser
to http://free, or http://127.0.0.1:portnum,
where 'portnum' is the port number (usually 8888) you've got FCPproxy
set to
Requesting keys from Freenet
To request a file you must know the "key".
At present, there are not many stable freesites within the 0.4
freenet, but you can expect this to grow very soon.
You can try:
Be aware that it can take up to a minute or more for anything you
click on to come through from Freenet. Your node will learn how
to query the network more efficiently as you use it, and so you
will notice that performance improves with time. Additionally, the
more popular the key you are requesting the less time it will take.
The reason for the delay is that Freenet must search for information
in a manner that protects your anonymity.
FwProxy has been designed a bit like the old FProxy, so that if
you download a web-page from Freenet, the page can have hyperlinks
to other documents within Freenet which FProxy will download as
if you had just clicked on a hyperlink on the WWW.
Inserting files into Freenet
There are several tools for the insertion of files and even whole
websites into Freenet, including:
fcpputsite - linux and windows - part of the FCPtools
package - inserts a whole site
fcpput - linux and windows - part of FCPtools
- inserts a single file
FreeWeb - windows
only - super-easy graphical site insertion program
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