Wild ideas for the future: Persisting whole website states offline (with images) + content sharing about falcon HOT 3 OPEN

I would absolutely love this feature too! I'm guessing that the html is already stored offline so I can't imagine it would take much more than the current setup but perhaps I'm wrong..

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Hi guys! This sounds like a really cool idea, and it'd be great to integrate something like this into Falcon. The system I'm envisioning is:

1. Press a button on Falcon menu to "archive" website
2. View archived websites in some kind of separate history viewing page, or maybe somehow integrate with the f<tab>cmd functionality already in place.

Some other thoughts:

• Storing data on the server is messy, high effort, and inherently insecure
• I am a full time college student so I can't work on this until January, but I'm happy to vet pull requests

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The click-to-archive method sounds good.

Not sure what you mean about having a server being insecure? With relatively low effort all the security risks can be mitigated:

• use key-pair encryption and encrypt data locally, before uploading to the server, that way even if somebody breaks into the server, they are unable to decrypt the data
• the search cache and all metadata is likewise created and encrypted/decrypted and a decrypted instance is kept locally for fast access
• we use HTTPS for all communication between client<->sever and authenticate the user for extra security
• in case you'd want to share data with other users in the system, you'd generate a new key-pair for each website/entry and re-encrypt those keys with that persons public key

With encryption in place, serving the function of the server could technically even be a public shared storage like Dropbox, because encrypted files would be unusable to any evil-doers, and you need to have the private key to access their contents. The private key would obviously need to be keep secret by the user.

I have experience with creating secure, encrypted client<->server communication, so given some spare time, I'd be happy to work on this.

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