[Sks-devel] Non-trivial HTTP server config

[Kiss Gabor (Bitman)]

Dear Johan,

Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> Port 80 in the status page is showing a valid inclusion in the p80
> sub-pool[1]. The primary purpose of this is to facilitate key lookups
> also for users that are behind, usually, corporate firewalls blocking
> port 11371. As such this pool will be used with the
> http://keyserver[:80] specification in --keyserver or conf file.
> 
> As such, it is not only sufficient that a website exist on port 80, but
> it has to conform to the HKP draft, most notably
> 
> "port80 will have to be available directly on the keyserver
> address, so that it can be accessed as /pks/lookup?op=get
[...]
> 
> As such, the test for port 80 availability is a successful download of a 
> stats 
> page ?op=stats - if this is not available, port 80 will not be considered, as 
> that would remove the benefit for the pool. 

Just for curiosity I entered URL http://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80
in my browser as written on page
http://sks-keyservers.net/overview-of-pools.php.
I get to page http://mud.stack.nl.
That is quite interesting site but at first sight does not serve
any keys related thing.
E.g.  http://mud.stack.nl/pks/lookup?op=stats says

| 404 Requested URL not found
| 
| The file /pks/lookup?op=stats does not exist on this server.
| 
| You may take a look at the main index.

You must have quite tricky HTTP server settings if
http://keyserver.stack.nl/pks/lookup?op=stats even works well.
on the same IP address. :-)

I wonder if your solution is public.

Cheers

Gabor