robin
How long should it be between putting my eepsite into my address book "Published" page and it turning up at notbob?
RN
If you register your eepsite, that depends on when notbob's scripts run. He hasn't published that information. But I would expect within 24 hours.
RN
but putting it into your local addressbook is not registering it
RN
you need to go to reg.i2p and follow the instructions there if you are planning to put up a site and keep it running in perpetuity.
RN
if you are just testing things, give people the b32 address
Opicaak
reg.i2p, inr.i2p, notbob syncs with the rest.
robin
RN ok thank you. Is this reg.i2p step documented somewhere I have missed?
RN
it should be in the help page when you first turn on your eepsite
RN
it may say stats.i2p but that registrar is down and reg and inr have replaced it for now
robin
on reg.i2p it gives an API for querying names, but I do not see an API for adding one.
RN
API? just load the site in a browser.
RN
you don't need to do it programatically, just load the site, click on add
RN
notbob.i2p/cgi-bin/blog.cgi?pager_menu=1&page=295 gives instructions on find the auth code
RN
if you don't know where to find it
robin
Oh I found all that. I am trying to see if it is possible to write a wizard that sets up an eep site, configures the tunnel, registers the name, generates web server config, all automatically
Opicaak
You don't need any API, just replicate the request sent to reg.i2p when adding new i2p domain name.
RN
if you make it too easy people will take names and abandon them
RN
it is not hard to do as it is
Opicaak
If they abandon them, they will become available for taking again.
Opicaak
After some time of being down.
RN
they will not be deleted from people's address books
RN
that is the problem with reg's strategy
RN
and the original design was not for them to expire
RN
that is a secuity fail
RN
you are supposed to be able to trust that the planet.i2p you visited three years ago is still the same site as it was then
robin
One of the reasons for site signatures, no?
robin
HTTP spec allows for site signatures but I do not know if any browsers enforce that
RN
that doesn't fix broken entries in the address book, and it is unnecessary if registrations are handled correctly.
RN
browsers do not enforce that in I2P
robin
So "making registrations slow" means "making them correct?"
robin
SOunds like, for proper reliability when nothing cna be trusted, we need a new browser, or at least plugins, to chekc things like this.
dr|z3d
making registrations a manual affair ensures that people are somewhat committed to using them, not just squatting them.
robin
"Did this site's signature change form the last time I looked?"
dr|z3d
once a hostname is in your addressbook, the key doesn't change. if a new host comes along with the same name and a different key, your router will alert you to the fact.