Hm, is there a way to download only the metadata of a file? Currently the freegle crawler downloads megabytes and megabytes of mp3s, avis and whatever... which is a total waste of bandwidth. (It doesn't cost me anything, but still.)
A brutal (and decidedly absurd) way would be to kill Fred after every successful request. (just reading mr. bad's response) Why are metadata-only requests bad? -Stefan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark J. Roberts" <[email protected]> To: <devl at freenetproject.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [freenet-devl] XML-RPC > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Rob Cakebread wrote: > > > On Wednesday 02 May 2001 02:21 pm, you wrote: > > > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 02:21:37PM -0700, Rob Cakebread wrote: > > > > I'm using the Chunked method to request data. If I'm in the middle > > > > of requesting data and I quit, does my node keep downloading > > > > data? (I'm doing this to verify a list of keys). > > > > > > > > As I understand it, if I kill freenet_request in the middle of a > > > > request my node stops downloading. > > > > > > Thats not true afaik. > > > > Umm. Which one? freenet_request stops downloading when you quit? > > Or xml-rpc? Or both? > > Your node does not stop downloading when you kill freenet_request. The > XMLRPC servlet connects to Fred the same way as freenet_request, so they > should behave identically. > > > -- > "...you have mistaken your cowardice for common sense > and have found comfort in that, deceiving yourselves." > Mark Roberts | mjr at statesmean.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
