[sug] Win api hook

[nikki]

Yo, it might be worth exploring using win hooks [Detours, EasyHook] instead of using browser addons. That way more apps can work with .bit [mail / rss client, download manager]

[1] http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/DnsHijack.aspx
[2] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/detours/
[3] http://easyhook.codeplex.com/

[khal]

cocktopus, on irc, suggested another way of doing this :

for windows users, the devs might look into LSP technologies
to prevent users having to specifically set proxy settings
in each app
a Layered Service Provider is a proxy vy virtue of it's being layered into the TCP/UDP stack in windows

More infos here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layered_Service_Provider

[culturespy]

This has been on my mind for a while; the need for OS-level dot-bit support so that any old app will work, not just your browser.

Fortunately, someone has already done some of the work. Apple's Bonjour project is an implementation of multicast-DNS. They have different goals, but they too required a pseudo-TLD to make it work. In their case, they created dot-local. With Bonjour (on windows or mac - linux users have the Avahi project), your PC can be found by anyone on your network as "yourpc.local". Really spiffy.

Avahi on Linux uses a very well-known OS interface called name-service-switch. On Windows, the equivalent interface is called Name Space Providers.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... p/ms740537

Avahi and Bonjour are both open source, so one could theoretically modify their code to answer dot-bit and dot-i2p by querying the block chain using a local instance of the client with its xmlrpc interface. No need for a local name service, proxy, or any browser plugins. Everything would Just Work.

I haven't looked at Apple's mDNS code for OSX. I assume OSX either supports NSS like Linux or has something equivalent.

For mobile: Portable editions of Windows apparently have the NSP interface. I don't know about Android, iOS, Blackberry, etc..