On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 08:31:43PM -0400, Gianni Johansson wrote: > With the current FCP implementation would be application writers have to > handle metadata parsing for redirects themselves. This seems like an > unreasonable burden, especially given that Oskar has already written a > metadata handling system. > > I propose that we add an optional MetadataHint message to the ClientGet FCP > handling. This message, sent after the final DataChunk, would contain the > next URI to request if the request was a redirect. > > While somewhat less ambitious (read easier to implement) than the initial FCP > level 2 proposal, MetadataHints would allow application writers to easily > handle redirected requests without having to parse metadata. Cool. We do still need FCP layer 2, supporting (non-)redundant splitfiles, indexes etc, of course. But that should be done out-of-process or as a servlet. > > I checked in an initial implementation. Look here for a little more info: > > http://hawk.freenetproject.org/pipermail/cvs/2002-July/000351.html > > What do people think? > > -- gj > > -- > Freesite > (0.4) freenet:SSK@npfV5XQijFkF6sXZvuO0o~kG4wEPAgM/homepage// > > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >
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