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Features

  • Web interface is made using django (a set of templates included)
    • Hosts submission page with local policy and form with fields Hostname, Destination and Description
    • Page for verification of upper-level domain when addind a subdomain
    • Index page
    • Navigation menu
    • Language switcher, multi-language interface (currently available in english and russian)
    • Browsing alive and recently added hosts (URLs are provided with addresshelpers)
    • RSS feeds for all active hosts and freshly added hosts
    • Searching by hostname
  • Admin interface (via django admin) features:
    • browsing all hosts with various filtering and ordering options
    • manual hosts editing and approving recently added hosts
    • preview b32 links for all hosts
    • managing external sources from which hosts.txt should be fetched
  • Validation of hostname and destination as described in I2P naming rules both in web interface and in admin interface. Also some additional validation (see http://zzz.i2p/topics/739 for details) is present in web interface.
  • Injector program: it parses hosts.txt files and adds hosts from them into database
  • hosts.txt fetcher: it fetches hosts.txt from another services and runs injector on them. Fetcher uses Last-Modified and ETag http headers for safe bandwith.
  • Hosts checker: it does availability check of each host using SAM python interface and updates "last seen" timestamp in database
  • hosts.txt builder: it queries database and builds a hosts.txt file
  • Hosts maintainer: it implements logic for all host-maintainance operations (activating, deactivating, deleting, setting expiration date)
  • Master daemon: it runs as unix daemon and periodically launches all other py-i2phosts programs.
  • All scripts (except injector and builder) can write all activity to log files. Web interface can log all submission attempts and all validation errors.
  • All scripts are supports command-line options and config files
  • Built-in jump service
  • Install script (using distutils)