Experimental Local Proxy Resolving

[phelix]

This sets up a local proxy redirecting .bit requests to the proper ip addresses and also proxying legacy domains.

It's a quick modification of https://github.com/allfro/pymiproxy

http://blockchained.com/stuff/proxy.py_
http://blockchained.com/stuff/namerpc.py_

Run proxy.py and set your browser proxy settings to 127.0.0.1 port 8083
Needs NMControl (and the Namecoin client) running to work.

It will not yet work with SSL but it should be possible.

Caching for legacy domains still needs a lot of work but sometimes it's quite fast actually.

[biolizard89]

This sets up a local proxy redirecting .bit requests to the proper ip addresses and also proxying legacy domains.

It's a quick modification of https://github.com/allfro/pymiproxy

http://blockchained.com/stuff/proxy.py
http://blockchained.com/stuff/namerpc.py

Run proxy.py and set your browser proxy settings to 127.0.0.1 port 8083
Needs NMControl (and the Namecoin client) running to work.

It will not yet work with SSL but it should be possible.

Caching for legacy domains still needs a lot of work but sometimes it's quite fast actually.

I'm not sure I understand what advantage this has over FreeSpeechMe's proxy?

[phelix]

This sets up a local proxy redirecting .bit requests to the proper ip addresses and also proxying legacy domains.

It's a quick modification of https://github.com/allfro/pymiproxy

http://blockchained.com/stuff/proxy.py
http://blockchained.com/stuff/namerpc.py

Run proxy.py and set your browser proxy settings to 127.0.0.1 port 8083
Needs NMControl (and the Namecoin client) running to work.

It will not yet work with SSL but it should be possible.

Caching for legacy domains still needs a lot of work but sometimes it's quite fast actually.

I'm not sure I understand what advantage this has over FreeSpeechMe's proxy?

tbh I have only a vague idea how FreeSpeechMe works... is this any similar to it?

I just happened to run across pymiproxy and played with it a little. It was fun and cool how little code was necessary to make .bit domains work (without TLS that is).

[biolizard89]

This sets up a local proxy redirecting .bit requests to the proper ip addresses and also proxying legacy domains.

It's a quick modification of https://github.com/allfro/pymiproxy

http://blockchained.com/stuff/proxy.py
http://blockchained.com/stuff/namerpc.py

Run proxy.py and set your browser proxy settings to 127.0.0.1 port 8083
Needs NMControl (and the Namecoin client) running to work.

It will not yet work with SSL but it should be possible.

Caching for legacy domains still needs a lot of work but sometimes it's quite fast actually.

I'm not sure I understand what advantage this has over FreeSpeechMe's proxy?

tbh I have only a vague idea how FreeSpeechMe works... is this any similar to it?

I just happened to run across pymiproxy and played with it a little. It was fun and cool how little code was necessary to make .bit domains work (without TLS that is).

Yep, quite similar to FreeSpeechMe. FreeSpeechMe uses the proxy code in Convergence, and adds a little bit of code to interface with NMControl. The main difference is that Convergence's proxy has built-in support for doing a MITM on TLS and checking the resulting certs, which is useful for us.

[phelix]

I'm not sure I understand what advantage this has over FreeSpeechMe's proxy?

tbh I have only a vague idea how FreeSpeechMe works... is this any similar to it?

I just happened to run across pymiproxy and played with it a little. It was fun and cool how little code was necessary to make .bit domains work (without TLS that is).

Yep, quite similar to FreeSpeechMe. FreeSpeechMe uses the proxy code in Convergence, and adds a little bit of code to interface with NMControl. The main difference is that Convergence's proxy has built-in support for doing a MITM on TLS and checking the resulting certs, which is useful for us.

I should really take a closer look at FreeSpeechMe. This proxy has some kind of MITM TLS, too, but I did not yet get it to work.

btw: I renamed the files so that they can actually be downloaded.

[biolizard89]

tbh I have only a vague idea how FreeSpeechMe works... is this any similar to it?

I just happened to run across pymiproxy and played with it a little. It was fun and cool how little code was necessary to make .bit domains work (without TLS that is).

Yep, quite similar to FreeSpeechMe. FreeSpeechMe uses the proxy code in Convergence, and adds a little bit of code to interface with NMControl. The main difference is that Convergence's proxy has built-in support for doing a MITM on TLS and checking the resulting certs, which is useful for us.

I should really take a closer look at FreeSpeechMe. This proxy has some kind of MITM TLS, too, but I did not yet get it to work.

btw: I renamed the files so that they can actually be downloaded.

Pull requests for FreeSpeechMe are always appreciated.