pstjuste/litter

Lan Twitter over SocialVPN

litter's Issues

Sometimes HTTP request get stuck

Sometimes going to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ causes the browser to hang for a long time, somehow litter is not sending response back, but when I stop and refresh, things seem to work.

Litterstore doesn't check for duplicate hashid

We need to do a query for a hashid before inserting it. If there is a collision, we should only insert the hashid that matches the actual message.

Use gravatar identicon to match avatar to uid

Send hash of public key (hence UID) to gravatar so that we can get Identicon image which maps to the unique key. Also later on provide the ability for someone to map friends to local images as their avatar

Go back from receive time to post time

change UI to show post time instead of received time

Enter should post message

when you click enter while typing a message, it should post.

Port to windows

Hopefully, I can easily port everything to windows with minimal changes

Create option buttons

Create shortcut buttons for user such as "Retweet, Reply, and Direct Message"

Switch to multiprogramming module for threading

The python threading module is extremely slow because only one thread executes, sometimes HTTP requests takes a long time if other threads are active such as workerthread or response thread

There should be a maximum size enforced (I recommend 140 chars)

The UI should truncate messages after 140 characters, and litter servers should ignore messages longer than that (there could be bad clients out there that try to attack you by sending giant messages). Ideally there would be a character count in Javascript shown above the message.

No way to shutdown.

I suggest a "shutdown" button on the web site. This could send a special message to the HTTP thread, which would then tell all the other threads to shutdown. How does this sound?

litter is accessible to all hosts

short term fix: bind only to 127.0.0.1 for HTTP, long term fix; allow setting a username and password when you start your litter server.

UI should show time of messages.

" in message text kills HTTP thread

If you put a quote in your message, HTTP thread seems to die. I tried two quotes (start and end quotes around a word).

Title should change if there are unread tweets while away

If you change tabs, you don't notice there has been a message. If the title would change, like Gmail, for instance, this would alert you to look.

bug in socket option.

ERROR:root:'module' object has no attribute 'SO_REUSEPORT'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./litter.py", line 82, in init_mcast
s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEPORT, 1)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SO_REUSEPORT'

md5.js not actually added

71ced26

That branch claims to add md5, but you forgot to "git add" it.

Detect urls

regular expression search on tweets, turn http into link

HTTP thread is fragile

do_POST and do_GET seem to be very fragile. If they have an error, I think only bad things happen. You should put a try block and in the Except return an error message to the browser. The browser should check to see if the result is an error or a good reponse. If it is an error, it can pop up an alert window or something.

Use RSA library to uid generation and message verification

Basically, use Dr. Boykin's RSA library to generate public/private key pair, and use private key to "sign/encrypt" every message. This will provide message verification.

Implement check gap functionality

Use postids to detect gaps in user posts and make get_posts requests to retrieve those gaps

Add show more posts link at the bottom of the page

Allow users to see more links instead of just 10 at load time

Fix characters left section

Figure out the right keyboard/mouse events to use to properly update the number of characters left in a message