> The reason I don't like this is because it means that in order to have a > trailing field, you must know its length. Sure, it's good to know the > length. It's sensible to drop messages without a length because they may > be attempts to flood by making the trailing field the entire contents of > /dev/null. However, we don't necessary ALWAYS want to require this. If we > had streaming data, for instance, like teleconferencing, the length of the > data is unknown. So while for some messages we should require a data > length, I don't think we should require it for all messages.
I was actually going to bring up the subject of streaming data at some point, it would be cool to permit radio stations to broadcast over Freenet in an anonymous manner. It shouldn't require fantastic modifications, but may not benefit from all of the security afforded to static content. Ian. _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
