Welcome to FreeWeb

Welcome to FreeWeb

Current version of FreeWeb is 0.1.5 - click here to download

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News - updated regularly

October 12, 2001 - FreeWeb 0.1.4 revised - now tested on new freenet 0.4

November 10, 2001 - FreeWeb 0.1.5 released

October 12, 2001 - FreeWeb 0.1.4 (revised) now released

Why so quiet?
We've been upgrading FreeWeb to work with the new 0.4 freenet
Today, released 'fcptools' - a platform-independent set of 0.4-compatible FCP client tools, including FwProxy (FProxy replacement), fcpget and ezFCPlib (an easy but powerful FCP library) - get yours now - download

July 4, 2001

Released 0.1.3.4 - this is a must-have
Fixed critical bug where freesite keypairs were getting changed after full reinsertion
Tidied up areas of FCP interface

June 29, 2001

FreeWeb is now LAN-friendly, meaning that you can use FreeWeb to connect to Freenet nodes anywhere in your LAN (or anywhere on the internet, in cases where node operators set their FCP ports to allow you to connect).
No longer do you need to have a node running on the machine FreeWeb is running on.
To allow FreeWeb connection in a LAN environment, make sure to include the IP address of the machine running FreeWeb in the 'services.fcp.allowedhosts' line in your node config. Also, if you choose, set your firewall to block incoming FCP (port 8082) connections from alien machines.

June 27, 2001

Released version 0.1.3.3
Added an option to site settings, allowing for re-insertion of all the site's files.
Useful for ensuring that all your files stay visible and don't drop out of people's data stores.
Implemented full key index submission functions. So you can submit your sites to other freesite indexes like Snarfoo. (The required wanky new XML-ish keyindex syntax is now transparently implemented, so key index submissions will work at the other end)
Implemented 'copy to clipboard' buttons on site properties dialog, so you can more conveniently grab your site's URI to use in other progs.

June 20, 2001

Added auto-refresh scheduling - this means you can set each freesite to re-insert itself automatically at a given time. Also, you can set a different insertion time for each site if you want. At last, goodbye to the daily 'site refresh' ritual. Sit back and let your sites keep themselves fresh :)

June 19, 2001

Release 0.1.3.2 offers many user interface refinements, plus failure recovery with insertions.
A must-have!

June 16, 2001

All proxy functionality has been removed. This closes the security/anonymity holes in previous versions.
Security is something the FreeWeb developers take very seriously.
From now on, to surf FreeWeb sites or any other Freesites, you need to use the in-built FProxy interface within Freenet (and don't turn off the anonymity filter). If you have Freenet installed, you can reach FProxy at http://127.0.0.1:8081.

June 13, 2001

FreeWeb's proxy server component is causing occasional program crash when browsing the mainstream web. If you experience problems, re-configure your browser to not use FreeWeb as a proxy. However, browsing Freenet sites and files via FreeWeb seems much less severely affected. Site inserts/refreshes are working OK. But as a precaution, please don't access the FreeWeb proxy while site insertions/refreshes are in progress. This problem is high on the bug list.
Please don't forget - while the site insertion is working OK, this is still alpha code.

June 10, 2001

June 3, 2001

May 28, 2001

April 27, 2001

We've fixed a bug in FreeWeb Publisher, which had made it fail when running in non-interactive mode.

April 24, 2001

We are now on Sourceforge. Please update your bookmarks to http://freeweb.sourceforge.net - quite a relief, after demand for FreeWeb totally maxed out the old server's traffic quota
DNS registry is running at full steam to keep up with demand for new domains
Please note - if you can't find a site, then Freenet will 'remember' the failed attempt (anonymously of course), and will strive to make that site more available. Try again after a couple of hours or days.

April 23, 2001

You may have reached this site via the URL 'http://freeweb-hq.da.ru'. Note that this URL is just a redirector. FreeWeb was developed in New Zealand.
FreeWeb will go open source as soon as the code settles, hopefully well within 3 weeks. It's written in a C++/straight C/Java mix. Sourceforge project proposal has been submitted - hopefully we'll move there soon.
FreeWeb is reportedly having problems on Windows 95C. This is added to the fix list, and will be investigated and fixed Real Soon Now.
Warning - FreeWeb Agent proxy blocks cookies - disable your browser's proxy config while accessing sites needing cookies.
Contact is invited from KDE and Mac developers who share the vision of a truly free network - porting will be needed to these platforms
Some confusion occurring about the slowness of inserting sites. Refer to Freenet site and doco for more info
Sadly, reports indicate FreeWeb is not working with Windows Whistler/XP.
Otherwise, alpha testing proceeding far better than expected. Failures and bug reports lower than anticipated. Please be aware it's alpha code though.
Unfortunately, HTL value for DNS record insertion has had to be lowered, due to unexpectedly high rate of new site creation. However, with people everywhere running the 'DNS Update' utility, these keys should increase visibility to compensate.

April 22, 2001

First alpha release is going well. Thanks for feedback - keep it coming.
Initial reports suggest that it works OK under 'wine', which opens the door to the Linux community
New sites are starting to appear on the FreeWeb DNS registry :)

April 17, 2001

Alpha testing Round Two begins.
Implemented new Freenet interface, based on Java Native Interface to freenet classes.
Implemented secure In-Freenet DNS, plus In-Freenet DNS Registry.
Implemented secure anonymity filter in FreeWeb Agent
Squished many bugs.
Alpha testing round two now .

April 8, 2001

April 5, 2001

March 23, 2001