Freenet CGI Request Client

Note: This software is unmaintained, and doesn't work with recent versions of Freenet.

FCRC is a CGI script which will allow you to use your web browser to browse Freenet. Run a Freenet node on your local machine, edit keydir.pl and fcrc.pl to set some preferences (in caps, defined toward the top of the file), drop the files in your cgi-bin directory, and URLs like:

http://localhost/cgi-bin/fcrc.pl/somekeyinfreenet

should work.

Also, http://localhost/cgi-bin/fcrc.pl will give you a search form, and you can enter the URL of one of the temporary keyindices to search from (no search terms will list all of the entires).

You can rename fcrc.pl as you like, but be sure to update the FCRC variable in keydir.pl

If you're also running Steve's Key Index, FCRC can do some neat stuff in conjunction with it. Just replace the stubbed-out keyindex.pm file that comes with FCRC with the one that comes with Steve's Key Index, and specifcy the location of your key index file in fcrc.pl and keydir.pl.

Please realize that FCRC is designed to be used in conjunction with a local node. Using FCRC to browse a remote node directly is a security risk, as any idiosyncratic differences in FCRC's operation might be sufficient to identify it as a client, circumventing your anonymity as a requester.

Want to see a demo? Well, too bad -- it used to be easy to set up a little demo without actually providing a connection to Freenet for you, but that's not so easy now, and I'm too lazy to do it. Sorry.

Download:
fcrc-0.0.6.tar.gz
fcrc-0.0.5.tar.gz
fcrc-0.0.4.tar.gz
fcrc-0.0.3.tar.gz
fcrc-0.0.2.tar.gz
fcrc-0.0.1.tar.gz