"Hope this helps." yes, that was a great description. very cool.
thanks. -josh David Allen wrote: >>I was wondering a little bit about activelinks. they are proported to >>encourage the continued propagation of free sites, but I dont see how >>the do anything but encourage the propagation of the activelinks >>themselves. as i understand it, each of the keys that comprise a >>freesite will have wildly different domains, so propagating one key >>should have no bearing on the other keys in the same freesite. do they >>actually do what TFE claims they do, and how? >> >> > >Well, I don't know exactly what TFE has in mind when those claims were made, >but... > >Whenever you have an SSK with a double slash "//" in it, that refers to >a mapfile. These activelinks generally look something like: >SSK@pubkey/sitename//activelink.jpg > >In order to fetch activelink.jpg, you first have to fetch the mapfile. >In order to fetch the mapfile, you might need to grab a DBR redirect >first. The mapfile of course is the master index that lists all of the >files that the site provides and how to get them. > >By downloading the activelink, you ARE spreading the DBR redirect and >the mapfile for the freesite on which the activelink resides. That's >why people link activelinks directly to other people's SSKs rather than >saving the activelink, and inserting it under their own SSK - certainly >that would work, but it wouldn't spread the other site's mapfile. > >So this doesn't help you fetch the front page of the site, but it spreads >data that is vital to the site's ability to be seen by others, namely >the mapfile. Also, *generally* (not always) if you can fetch the activelink >that means that rest of the site will be fetchable. If it's not fetchable, >it often means the rest of the site wasn't inserted at all (in the case of >editions not yet published) or misinserted. > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >chat mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat > > -- ___________________________________________________________ Josh .. Yoshi .. Joschi .. http://eds.org/~joschi/vitriolix _______________________________________________ chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat
