On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 02:00:36PM -0600, Mark J. Roberts wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Brandon wrote:
> >
> > > > I need to pass it a Params object because the MapHandler needs to request
> > > > the mapfile. Otherwise I can leave getKey alone and do it right in
> > > > fillBuckets. Either way is OK IMHO. It's only two lines of code.
> > >
> > > No, fillBuckets is way too low level. It's a generic piece of code for all
> > > keys. You're adding key-specific code and it should go in a key-specific
> > > place.
> >
> > MSKs aren't really keys. They're much higher level than keys.
> >
> > So where do you suggest I put my one line of code? Whatever I do to
> > RequestClient, Oskar will still bite my head off. Ah well...
>
> Very possibly. I haven't even paid enough attention to figure out what
> this whole "MSK" thing is to begin with. When I figure it out I will
> probably throw a fit.
I'll try to quickly define the proposal. (The discussion was not
productive because nobody understood the others' points.)
MapSpace Keys
=============
A MSK is a superior way to insert a Web site. The key is structured as:
freenet:MSK@[mapkey]//[filename]
[mapkey] is a normally-inserted file under any keytype, and it may be a
redirect. It follows the format:
Mapfile
[filename]=[key]
[filename]=[key]
...
For example, a chapter of a book might be inserted as:
Mapfile
index.html=CHK@asdf
01.png=CHK@fdsa
02.png=CHK@qwerty
03.png=CHK@hjhgfsd
The contents of the mapfile are cached in a hashtable the first time the
mapfile is requested. Subsequent requests for data are thus efficiently
looked up.
However, keys like "freenet:MSK@KSK@pigdogjournal//index.html" are ugly
and hard to type. Two shortcuts were implemented to address this:
1) When the KSK@ is omitted, as is currently allowed, any key with a
double slash is assumed to be a MSK. For example,
"freenet:pigdogjournal//index.html" is a MSK with a mapfile of
"KSK@pigdogjournal", while "freenet:KSK@pigdogjournal//index.html" is a
regular KSK. Considering how few KSKs contain double slashes, I believe
this is an indispensible shortcut.
2) When the filename is omitted, it is assumed to be "index.html",
like a Web server does. We can thus represent the vast majority of MSKs as
keys like "freenet:pigdogjournal//".
When combined with our new automatic SSK date-updating redirects, this
proposal as a whole enables the insertion of updated, guessable, and
simple Web sites. Furthermore, it decreases the thousands of individual
SSK redirects necessary to insert for a large site (like the Pigdog
Journal) to only one. This enables content producers to update their sites
virtually as often as they like, to be accessed through simple URIs.
That's my proposal, that's my implementation, and I'm sticking to it!
--
Mark Roberts
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