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

[Ian Clarke]

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:06:18AM -0500, Scott Gregory Miller wrote:
> > 
> > If the CHK data contains the key for the metadata, then it won't coalesce
> > between two different sets of metadata anyways...
> 
> Good point.  Alright then, strict subset is the best way.  For most
> purposes, Content-Type is sufficient.

I am not sure what you mean.... my view is that all of this separating
out the metadata stuff is going to cause a lot of pain for questionable
benefits.  I really don't think that making two files with different
metadata have the same CHK is worth the ugliness that would be fixing in
stone the metadata permitted with documents.  The reason is that if we
don't allow metadata, client authors will be forced to place that
information in the document itself (to avoid the expense of requesting
an additional file), and we are back to the exact same situation.

Ian.

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