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NEWS: updated to most recent user-visible changes, including the 8123-to-3456 change

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Brian Warner 2008-12-09 17:11:46 -07:00
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@ -113,6 +113,18 @@ code, and obviously should not be used on user data.
** Web changes
The "default webapi port", used when creating a new client node (and in the
getting-started documentation), was changed from 8123 to 3456, to reduce
confusion when Tahoe accessed through a Firefox browser on which the
"Torbutton" extension has been installed. Port 8123 is occasionally used as a
Tor control port, so Torbutton adds 8123 to Firefox's list of "banned ports"
to avoid CSRF attacks against Tor. Once 8123 is banned, it is difficult to
diagnose why you can no longer reach a Tahoe node, so the Tahoe default was
changed. Note that 3456 is reserved by IANA for the "vat" protocol, but there
are argueably more Torbutton+Tahoe users than vat users these days. Note that
this will only affect newly-created client nodes. Pre-existing client nodes,
created by earlier versions of tahoe, may still be listening on 8123.
All deep-traversal operations (start-manifest, start-deep-size,
start-deep-stats, start-deep-check) now use a start-and-poll approach,
instead of using a single (fragile) long-running synchronous HTTP connection.
@ -123,7 +135,8 @@ removed.
The new "POST start-manifest" operation, when it finally completes, results
in a table of (path,cap), instead of the list of verifycaps produced by the
old "GET manifest". The table is available in several formats: use
output=html, output=text, or output=json to choose one.
output=html, output=text, or output=json to choose one. The JSON output also
includes stats, and a list of verifycaps and storage-index strings.
The "return_to=" and "when_done=" arguments have been removed from the
t=check and deep-check operations.