Re: Contributing to GNUnet

[Tanguy Le Carrour]

Hello Martin, hello Christian,


Le 03/04, Schanzenbach, Martin a écrit :
> > On 4. Mar 2020, at 10:23, Christian Grothoff <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 3/4/20 9:34 AM, Tanguy Le Carrour wrote:
> >> Dear GNUnet developers,
> >>
> >> GNS seems to work. The proxy doesn't
> >> work with Icecat, nor with Firefox (?!), but works with Chromium…
> >
> > That is strange. Did you succeed in installing the proxy's certificate
> > in the certificate root store with Firefox/Icecat? Did you enable DNS
> > name resolution in the proxy (in my version of Firefox, you need to
> > scroll down in the proxy dialog to see the respective option).
>
> Maybe DOH is active? ;)

DOH was not, but neither was "Proxy DNS when using SOCKS v5". This
solved the problem!
I used the "Burger menu > preferences", not the "about:config", that's
why I missed it, I guess.


> >> but GNS doesn't
> >> work well with virtual host, does it?
> >
> > It does, that's what Legacy Host (LEHO) records are there for: you
> > specify the name that should be sent in the "Host:" header in a LEHO
> > record, and then (assuming you gave the correct one), GNS should work
> > with virtual hosting as well.

Oh, sorry, apparently, I skipped those lines! ^_^'

Now, when I type "host.myself", I'm "redirected" and my LEHO
"virtal.host.tld" shows up in the URL bar! The shield icon says
"verified by GNU", which is what I was expecting, but the page remains
empty! I'll try again with Firefox and Chromium later.


> >> Now I'm trying to figure out how I could help the project? I could keep the
> >> Guix package up to date.
>
> Running a node and testing is always welcome. Trying out to host a service via
> VPN/CADET reachable via GNS would be great etc.
> That usually leads to improved documentation, exposes bugs and maybe even
> a reachable demo service for others to try.

Sounds like a plan! :-)


> > Sure, that would be helpful. Ideally, we would like to have GNUnet
> > packages that make sure that GNS is working out-of-the-box (including
> > database(s), GNS proxy/CA/NSS switch, re:claim plugins, etc.). So
> > getting this 'right' can actually be quite a bit of work.
> > 
> >> I had to disable some tests to make it work, so
> >> I could open a bug report for that?
> > 
> > Of course.

I'll write a proper report and submit it there [1][] then.

[1]: https://bugs.gnunet.org/my_view_page.php


> >> I could package groupchat for Guix. It's
> >> a small piece of software, but it would be the first Nim package in Guix, 
> >> which
> >> is by itself a challenge. One thing for sure, I'll try to use re:claimID
> >> on a real project!
> > 
> > That's also great, and we'd appreciate reports on how it went!

I keep you guys posted!

Thanks again for your help!


-- 
Tanguy