He doesn't have to download the data. The data is sent back not for the purpose of the client, but for purpose of the nodes earlier in the chain (the person has now seriously fucked his chances of overwriting the key).
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Caolan McNamara wrote: > If there is a key collision on the InsertRequest the > existing data is returned. Is this such a good idea ? > > Man attempts to insert 12 byte file, gets unexpected > 900gig file in return. Is there either a mechanism > to determine the existance of a key without getting > sent the data, or an abort send message. Just drop > the connection ? Am I overlooking something obvious. > > C. > > Real Life: Caolan McNamara * Doing: MSc in HCI > Work: Caolan.McNamara at ul.ie * Phone: +353-86-8790257 > URL: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan * Sig: an oblique strategy > A line has two sides > > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev -- Oskar Sandberg md98-osa at nada.kth.se #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
