On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:34:44AM +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 05:01:40PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote:
> > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 05:29:31PM -0500, Brandon wrote:
> > > I think it would better to disallow DMI in CHKs altogether. That would
> > > make everything must simpler. You can put the DMI for small CHKs in a
> > > redirect.
> >
> > I disagree, this means that a redirect would be required just to insert
> > a small image into Freenet if we wanted to associated a MIME-type with
> > it. That would (on average) double the time required to retrieve the
> > image. Ditto for HTML pages, and anything else too small to split, but
> > which uses a MIME-type.
>
> I agree. The problem is that the metadata formats have been worked out for
> flexibility, where as to work for CHKs we need it to be strict as fuck.
> What is needed is a strict as fuck subset of the metadata standard for
> CHK data to use.
Hm, what about including the MIME type in the CHK URI?
/me ducks
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