-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Actually, the IP thing is an important thing in case of changes, and not for statistics reasons.
If a client's IP changes, the tracker needs to know about it, and the key paramater is the best way to validate that the peer is who it claims to be. Don't want outsiders causing messes with IP force-changing, do we? Christian Lohmaier wrote: > Hi Harold, *, > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 06:11:12PM -0400, Harold Feit wrote: >> Christian Lohmaier wrote: >>> Another problem is with Opera's internal BitTorrent client. It doesn't >>> support the key-parameter in the announce-URL. >> That would be a bug in Opera then, since it's not a new extension (it >> was added in 2003ish), and is there to give a secure mechanism for a >> peer to change its IP in the tracker database in case its actual IP changes. > > I agree this is a problem of Opera - but since the OOo-Trackers don't > do any user-based statistics or authentification stuff, they don't need > the key, so I guess that not to require that parameter is not a big > deal... > > I still wonder though why opera doesn't fall back on another tracker in > that case - this seems to be the bigger bug IMHO... > > ciao > Christian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBRU+ViV8nceBm0DUaAQKjhQf8DHRQSATRi+i4OmRyz3hwJSSJA0ZSfBrY +YXhEfvXjUcT51Jf4WIyGQ7isJ/2TerEll2MXLCzBM4VIa7Pl1l3Lk2LKP9VG7NE iLZOneiHk3dOc3/vJ6Z1Wn0LZrABdhuBuOWARbUADy1nCbq+EpS5usX0Og2VgC8E +nKtYkp5S7fMl1dJ4e/5qyKppC6MafM1p+GoMpWSZzwLM559O3e0BdmDozLcDAXS z/Ok3IzoeR6pjsfT+Xkj8XbrfgdOm6cbzucAXzG5z9ko7G1PDbuOwUeCUxdRSgJN TeIRO9LnvYWwatdwSDJnwu1bjDo8vnCeHYTWz0+hwiiLAta10epG9Q== =PTtB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
