On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 08:16:37PM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> On Monday 30 January 2006 13:51, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> 
> > If disk:
> > Filename=<absolute filename>
> > = the filename to which to write the data (with full path)
> > TempFilename=<relative filename>
> > = the filename to which to write the data before it has been completed.
> >   Will be renamed to Filename when completely downloaded. Before that, can
> >   be used as temporary space, up to the size of the file to be fetched.
> 
> Why not forget Filename and just use TempFilename with a base path set in the
> config and some enforcement to prevent .. and the like for working.  Then its 
> not
> quite as dangerous.

Then it wouldn't be so useful?
> 
> > Persistence:
> > - connection // tied to a connection
> > - reboot // tied to a client name, disappears on reboot
> > - forever // tied to a client name, persists across reboots
> > 
> > DropTime:
> > - -1/0/default // keep forever until satisfied or run out of retries
> > - 1138646820000 // keep until Mon Jan 30 18:47:00 GMT 2006
> 
> Just use DropTime.   If none is used then it drops at when the 
> connection does.  If we are going to support persistence why do I
> care if the node is booted several time or if a connection drop....
> IMO simplier is easier to understand and work with.

I care because it impacts my security. We can't just have DropTime.
> 
> Ed Tomlinson
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