On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 05:11:32PM -0500, Scott Gregory Miller wrote:
> On Sat, 5 May 2001, Ian Clarke wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 05:29:31PM -0500, Brandon wrote:
> > > I think it would better to disallow DMI in CHKs altogether. That would
> > > make everything must simpler. You can put the DMI for small CHKs in a
> > > redirect.
> > 
> > I disagree, this means that a redirect would be required just to insert
> > a small image into Freenet if we wanted to associated a MIME-type with
> > it.  That would (on average) double the time required to retrieve the
> > image.  Ditto for HTML pages, and anything else too small to split, but
> > which uses a MIME-type.
> 
> Solution:  Allow only content-type and "Metadata-Key" fields, have the
> redirect for the full metadata be attached to the data, not vice versa.

If the CHK data contains the key for the metadata, then it won't coalesce
between two different sets of metadata anyways...

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