[Tor www-team] First set of technical requirements

[Rey Dhuny]

Sean Rafferty:  


> Just to clarify: technically tools like Jekyll or Sinatra could be used because the server can be started wherever the site files are located whether it’s a USB stick or a laptop, correct?  

I am of the opinion that starting a local server on a USB stick adds a level of complexity compared to distributing a bunch of flat files that Jekyll/Middleman generate.

Rey  

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On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 at 15:09, Sean Rafferty wrote:

> Just to clarify: technically tools like Jekyll or Sinatra could be used because the server can be started wherever the site files are located whether it’s a USB stick or a laptop, correct?
>  
> On Jan 8, 2014, at 9:34 AM, Lunar <lunar at torproject.org (mailto:lunar at torproject.org)> wrote:
>  
> > Sean Rafferty:
> > > Pardon my ignorance, but is the requirement for a static site a
> > > security concern or simply an ease-of-use issue?
> > >  
> >  
> >  
> > Security concerns, ease to setup, ease of mirroring.
> >  
> > > Another dumb question, but when you say the site needs to work
> > > offline, do you mean people can view the content without a web
> > > server, or that it must run on a local instance of a web sever and not
> > > require things like google's cdn version of query?
> > >  
> >  
> >  
> > Tor is used for censorship circumvention. Think about an USB stick with
> > the Tor Browser Bundle, and a copy of the website. The website should be
> > usable without requiring any access to the network so people can learn
> > how to use Tor to reach the wider Internet.
> >  
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