Does it actually matter? The data is one stream of bytes, then it is decrypted. Something comes first. If all the data contains is a reference to one or several other pieces or data that is in there will be a field saying that.
Now we can have the fun discussion: a: This has only metadata and no data b: No this has only a short piece of data and no metadata a: No, it has only metadata b: does not a: does too! b: does not! o: Who gives a flying fuck what we call it? On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 02:38:22AM -0500, Brandon wrote: > > > Redirect > > Redirect-to=freenet:CHK at klasdfadsfldsfdfjsdf > > > Multipart > > Part-count=10 > > Part-1=freenet:CHK at asdlfldsfhsadfraewf > > Part-2=freenet:CHK at alsdfhjsdfadfkdsfj > > I don't like simply putting the content-carrying fields in the metadata > because they're not metadata, they're content. In a sense they're metadata > about some other thing in Freenet, but the way I look at it, the private > metadata should contain metadata about the included file. Of course you > can say if there is no file, then the metadata must be referring to some > other file. But I don't see why this is better than just having it > uniform. You avoid possible namespace collisions between metadata about > the file itself and metadata about the file it is referring to. And it > just seems cleaner to me. > > Examples: > > Redirect > Signature=312798432109813209813298012 > Data > freenet:CHK at klasdfadsfldsfdfjsdf > > Multipart > Count=2 > Encoding=RAID0 > Author=Brandon > Title=72 Naked Cryptographers in Vienna > Data > freenet:CHK at asdlfldsfhsadfraewf > freenet:CHK at alsdfhjsdfadfkdsfj > > Index > Signature=980439804309843098 > Title=Philosophical texts > Author=Automated philosophical text indexing bot > Count=3 > Data > Art of War=freenet:CHK at asdlfldfklsdioeipopiopiofspio > The Prince=freenet:CHK at ioioioioioioioioiooiioioioioi > Leviathan=freenet:CHK at jkdkjfdjklfdkljfsdkljfsdkljfs > > These all have the same format as a "normal" file: > > Normal > Author=Brandon > Content-type=image/gif > Title=picture of a monkey > Data > <a bunch of binary gibberish representing a gif file> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev > -- \oskar _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
