[107181] in Cypherpunks
Re: Free Email as Anonymous Remailer Re: NPR is at it again...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Anderson)
Tue Jan 5 02:06:30 1999
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 01:42:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
cc: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981114002632.007caa30@idiom.com>
Reply-To: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
> The problems -
> - How can easily can you break the system?
> --- Does it leave too many open connections that can be followed?
Well, the real problem here is that until we get a version of http that
truly supports persistent connections, *and* handles them properly, there
are major issues with getting the cgi scripts (all the same program, I
would suspect) to properly recognize if they were at the final URL, or
another one, and to know where to get the IMG files from.
I'm sure this is possible, but I suspect there's going to need to be a
fairly robust application on the client end, probably taking each webpage,
and modifying all the IMG links to be local, and writing the images to
that. It'll be kludgy given the current state of http technologies.
Ryan Anderson
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