Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-06
- o Major feature:
- - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes it as
- "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a disclaimer without
- needing to set up a separate webserver. There's a sample disclaimer
- in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
+ o Major features:
+ - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
+ it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
+ disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
+ a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
o Major bugfixes:
- Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
## below too. You'll need to do ipchains or other port forwarding yourself
## to make this work.
#DirListenAddress 0.0.0.0:9091
-
-## Uncomment this to return an arbitrary blob of html on your DirPort. You may
-## wish to use this blob of html to inform clients about your Tor server.
+## Uncomment to return an arbitrary blob of html on your DirPort. Now you
+## can explain what Tor is if anybody wonders why your IP address is
+## contacting them.
#DirPortFrontPage /etc/tor/exit-notice.html
## Uncomment this if you run more than one Tor server, and add the
static or_state_t *global_state = NULL;
/** Configuration Options set by command line. */
static config_line_t *global_cmdline_options = NULL;
-/** Contents of most recently read DirPortFrontPage option file. */
+/** Contents of most recently read DirPortFrontPage file. */
static char *global_dirfrontpagecontents = NULL;
/** Return the contents of our frontpage string, or NULL if not configured. */
if (frontpage) {
dlen = strlen(frontpage);
- /* Lets return a disclaimer, users shouldn't use V1 anymore */
+ /* Let's return a disclaimer page (users shouldn't use V1 anymore,
+ and caches don't fetch '/', so this is safe). */
if (global_write_bucket_low(TO_CONN(conn), dlen, 1)) {
log_info(LD_DIRSERV,
"Client asked for DirPortFrontPage content, but we've been "
connection_write_to_buf(frontpage, dlen, TO_CONN(conn));
goto done;
}
+ /* if no disclaimer file, fall through and continue */
}
if (!strcmp(url,"/tor/") || !strcmp(url,"/tor/dir")) { /* v1 dir fetch */