Use http tunnel to eliminate fakes

[tsafa1]

Ants has an HTTP tunnel that allows users to host webpages anonymously. In short people would install a program like "apache 2" and then share html files in the server directory of apache. Other users would then go to the "http server" panel in ants and hit the refresh botton to get a list of available servers (if any). you then activate that server by right clicking and then rigt clicking again to open with your browser.

These webpages can contain anything that you can put on a webpage from text to thumbnail pictures. You can also copy and paste File Hashes. As people become familiar with your server and gain the servers trust, they will know that hashes posted on your website are not fake.

Since this server is within ants and the data is routed via ants protocols it is just as anonymous as the files you are sharing. And since no one can know the true location of this server it can not be taken down like some other intenet based stes that were closed.

Another way of looking at this is that each person can set up his own anonymous bulletine board with hash Files.

[tsafa1]

I copied and pasted the following from a server on ants with instructions on how to set up a server:



The Apache server will become the link between the html file you will create and Ants P2P program. This will allow you to share any files you create anonymously with the world.

First you will go to the Apache website: http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

Go to the download section and find: Win32 Binary (MSI Installer): apache_2.0.50-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi

After it installs, click on the .msi file to install. You will get an info page-hit next.

Now you will get an interesting page that might look scary because it asks for domain names and e-mail address. Fear not, you can make on up. Just type it in the right form.

For network domain, enter something like: lotsofporn.com

For server name, enter something like: www.lotofporn.com

For administrator email address, enter something like: madman@lotsofporn.com

underneath that you will see two options. Leave the default: All users on port 80 as a service-recommeded.

Hit next button

Pick typical setup and hit next to install. After installation you should see apache running in your task try. leave it alone. You are finished setting up your Apache server.

Go to your web browser and type in: http://127.0.0.1/

You should get a page telling you that you Apache installation was successful.

Now you have to configure Ants, which is simple. Go to the settings panel and click on: open http service. Enter proxy port: 8080 and local port: 80

Home page for now will be: index.html

Now Ants is ready. Apache is ready. All you have to do is create a webpage.

Let's do something simple. Find a .jpg picture of a naked girl. Copy and paste it the following directory on your computer: C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs

You can delete all the other files in that directory. You don't need them, you will create your own. Effectively this will be your share directory. Both the picture and the html file you will create must be in this directory. So now that the picture is in this directory go back to dreamweaver. In the toolbar you will see a green icon with a tree on it. Click on that. Now browse your way to the place where you saved the picture: C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs

Click on the picture and hit ok. You should now have it on your page. We are finished. This is just a simple test. Go to the top menu and save your file. Click: file; and then: save as. You will name this file: index.html

If you remember this is the Home Page name we typed into Ants. So for now any file you save must be in that directory with the name: index.htlm

I almost forgot to mention, in Ants under the Home Page field, you could enter a description for people to see. It can be anything you want. (example: free porn for all !!!)

That's it. Now go into the IRC channel and tell someone to refresh their servers and try to open it with their browser. If they can, you are now a WEBMASTER !!!!!

If they can't tell them to make sure their browser has been configured correctly. To do that tell them to go to the settings page and click on: Browser Location

Then click your way to your browsers executable. For me it is: C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\mozilla.exe

You may have a different browser.

To view an http server, first click on it. The right click and hit activate. Then right click again and hit open with browser.

I have one favor to ask of you. When you start publishing your own webpages, please copy and paste these instructions at the bottom somewhere so other people can also learn to set up their own anonymous webpages.

Thank You

[tsafa1]

Also please know that HORNET has a built in webserver. If you use Hornet, you do not need to install apche. Just copy your htlm file to the webserver directory inside the Hornet directory.

Much thanks to Bitzbreaker for simplifing things a bit. (note: hornet is based on ants 0.6.9 and works on a seperate network. You will anly be able to connect to people in the hornet chat room.)

[tsafa1]

If you have set up an http server the best way for you to test it is to install another verion of ants on your desktop. You can not have two JWS so you should download and install the developer version from the source forge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/antsp2p/

It is very important that you change the port number to any thing other then 4567. You can not run two ants on same port number. You can use anthing else. use 3501 for example. If you have filrewall remember to open port 3501 and 3502, in this case. Also you can not enter IRC with same name. So if you Like to use Bozack as you chatname, on your second ants you should use Bozack2. This way we can keep track of how many people are really on Ants.

You will set up the browser in your second ants and you can even enter the html file name and open a poxy server in the second ants. You will now be able to server from either ants. You can refresh the http servers and open them.

You can even go a step beyond that and search files you know you are sharing and dowload from yourself. Here you will see the potential of ants. You will see swarming at wild speeds up to 500 kb/s. Because now you are transfering files via the internet and also within you own computer. Just make sure you pick a diffrent download directory. Here you will see that ants is not limited by anything other then bandwith.

[tsafa1]

When you install two ants on one desktop and transfer fiels between them, Ants thinks you are on a Local Area Network.

[Stownplayer]

ok, i'll try that in one sec.......

[infringer]

Ahhh yeas ants seems to have a great potential indeed needs a larger user base but definate potential for sure.

-infringer-

[Psilaxs]

Stownplayer has the same sentiments as i do. let me try that out real quick and tell ya how it goes. People will not try ants nor take it seriously until it is as simple as point click download.

I would rather deal with the cliques of people on filetopia than go through all that, and believe me, getting files on filetopia is damned near impossible if you are an unknown.

[tsafa1]

Originally Posted by Psilaxs

People will not try ants nor take it seriously until it is as simple as point click download.

I very much agree with you. My hope is that once Gwren finalizes the protocol, other programers will modify Ants so that it boots from simple webhost caches and then give it a simple Kazaa like interface. Ants is open source, so not only is it legal to modify it, but you will also get help to do it :tilted

Internal anonymously websites are a very good idea. People will be able to host their own links just like those ed2k link sites that are so nice for eDonkey.

Thanks for the How To above tsafa1 that helped out a lot setting it up.

One thing you seemed to have got is that people should block incoming http traffic to their apache server all traffic needs to be going through Ants only to remain anonymous.

[crackerjacker]

hmm proxies are slow
but hell its better then nothing.

[tsafa1]

Originally Posted by zeroshadow

One thing you seemed to have got is that people should block incoming http traffic to their apache server all traffic needs to be going through Ants only to remain anonymous.

That is the one aspect of this whole thing that i do not have a handle on. Could someone please post a detailed explanation. I have run an http website and then tried to access it via regular internet from google and was not able to, how is this vulnerable? I could also use more info on picking and setting up a firewall. Zonealarm drove me nuts. Gwren says open ports 4567 and 4568, ZA did not give those options. I need something i can relate to GW's instructions. Also what ports do i open in order to publish http webpage?

Thanks Much

[fnordprefect]

tsafa:
If you don't configure your webserver to not respond to external port 80 requests then anyone you knows your IP (and you have been spreading it around a bit, plus it would be trivial to obtain it from IRC/gwebcache) can just point their browser to: http://yourIPhere and bingo! goodbye anonymous webpage, hello lawsuits.

You can block access in 2 ways, most webservers will have an option to restrict port 80 access, and you should limit it to 127.0.0.1 or "localhost" only.

Alternatively, you can use the program controls in Zonealarm to block port 80 access from the Internet zone.

You don't really need to bother opening ports with Zonealarm. When a program attempts to initiate a connection or listen on a port, ZA will ask you for permission and if you click Yes and tick the Remember option) then it's taken care of.

So, if you have Ants running happily and install your webserver, then block the webserver from responding to non-localhost requests then Ants people will make requests through the Ants port/s.
The Ants program contacts the webserver which responds since your Ants program is running on localhost.

That help?
If anyone catches a mistake in my instructions please don't hesitate to post a correction. This is an important topic.

[eivioolla]

Originally Posted by crackerjacker

hmm proxies are slow
but hell its better then nothing.

Yeah, damn those slow foreign proxies, surfing via them is such a pain...


It's not like you need to be lightning fast to view a simple web site that this topic was about.

[shawners]

User base isnt lacking for say, it needs people to share a 100 percent of the things they have on thier hard drive..