> > Anyway, I've implemented the separate metadata (not attached to
> > files) insert and request.
> 
> What is this good for? There is no need to keep MetaData seperate from the
> data, since the MetaData is irrelevant without the data itself. 

I thought it had been agreed that there should be a separate metadata
space which holds incriminating metadata, for the purpose of searching
Freenet without knowing what's on any particular node. I don't yet have a
searching solution, but here's an implementation of a metadata store for
the searching to operate on.

> > I also have a really neat structured query parser that returns a list of
> 
> And what in the world is this good for? I'm assuming this is in the client?

I don't have an application for this at the moment, but I figure somebody
might want to use it or cannabalize some of it because it's pretty
neat. Structured searches would be nice, where you could search for
something based on a field in the metadata. But then, of course, we need a
searching methodology to use that.

> > data insertion and retrieval, and write a file server node to keep
> > information in Freenet.
> 
> Why? What is a "file server node"?

Something which periodically requests specified items from Freenet and, if
it can't find them, inserts them, so as to always keep them around. I'm
not sure how useful this will be in practice, but people keep asking about
it and if I implement it, they will stop asking.

> > The first is so that we can get ContentType usable again. The last is so
> > that people will just stop asking about it.
> 
> AFAIK Scott already fixed support for meta-data fields preceding the actual
> data. That is where the ContentType should go - using it is just a client 
> issue.

Yes, I'm going to work on the client classes so that they process trailing
field metadata so that the www interfaces can add ContentType trivially.



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