On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:42:32PM +0200, Stefan Reich wrote: > 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?
We strive for a Heisenberg element in all interactions with Freenet. You cannot even check whether data is present on the network without effecting it. -- 'DeCSS would be fine. Where is it?' 'Here,' Montag touched his head. 'Ah,' Granger smiled and nodded.
