Opera revolution fail
June 16th, 2009 • Uncategorized
File sharing service is basically a web server directory listing exposed to the internet. This is my understanding how it works:
1. You point Opera Unite to a directory
2. Opera internal web server starts listening 8840 port locally
3. Opera opens a persistent connection to operaunite.com (213.236.208.30 IP address in my case)
4. So when anyone opens up home.yourlogin.operaunite.com, operaunite.com server requests the list of files from your machine using a persistent connection that you opened and sends the response back to user.
5. when you close Opera, web server is shut down, connection is dropped and nobody can download anything.So sharing can work ONLY when your computer is working and Opera is running.
So none of the services can work when computer is turned off or Opera is not running.
I just tried to visit six Opera Unite pages and only one resolved. The future of the web is two 9s: 0.99% uptime!
John Resig, author of jQuery
