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.
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