Re: [freenet-devl] no client metadata in 0.4 CHKs?

[Ian Clarke]

On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 05:11:32PM -0500, Scott Gregory Miller wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Solution:  Allow only content-type and "Metadata-Key" fields, have the
> redirect for the full metadata be attached to the data, not vice versa.

Making an exception for content-type makes me uncomfortable, you can be
sure that there will be other fields which we have not thought of yet,
but which are equally deserving of this treatment.

I still don't really understand the rationale for separating out the
metadata as you are suggesting anyway...

Ian.

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