Thursday, October 9, 2008

We hit Slashdot

We hit Slashdot on Tuesday, the craze is dying down now.

I think I learn two things:
  1. The introduction video was a bit crappy and several people, rightly, said so. However, the general level of misunderstanding was substantially reduced, so it worked I guess
  2. I should be provided a transcript of the video or, at least, a non-video replacement for it. I've now done this.
TLS transport support

TLS transport support is here, yay! Well, it's just hitting the site now. In short, you can configure the DNS advert to say "Actually, connect with HTTPS on port x". Firefox will see this and, even when the user entered "http://", will use HTTPS and ignore any certificate problems.

This makes server support easy, it's just HTTPS. Performance isn't so great, but, well, there you go. Port 443 also works better with firewalls.

The documentation and git trees are up to date. I'll be uploading the Firefox build (64-bit Linux) in just a second.

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