How Does FreeWeb Actually Work?
FreeWeb keeps records of all directories and domains published to Freenet. Amongst the site records, a timestamp is kept of when each site, and each of its files, was last uploaded to Freenet. Therefore, if a site hasn’t changed since it was last uploaded, FreeWeb won’t try to upload it again. As for the upload process, this is handled transparently in the background by multiple threads which negotiate the key insertions with Freenet via the Freenet Client Protocol (FCP). All sites published on FreeWeb can be accessed without the FreeWeb software, because they exist in the standard DBR-MSK format. To find out the traditional Freenet URI corresponding to your site, simply double-click on that site in FreeWeb Publisher (or right-click on the site and select Properties).
