On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 08:31:43PM -0400, Gianni Johansson wrote:
> With the current FCP implementation would be application writers have to 
> handle metadata parsing for redirects themselves.  This seems like an 
> unreasonable burden, especially given that Oskar has already written a 
> metadata handling system.
> 
> I propose that we add an optional MetadataHint message to the ClientGet FCP 
> handling.  This message, sent after the final DataChunk, would contain the 
> next URI to request if the request was a redirect.
> 
> While somewhat less ambitious (read easier to implement) than the initial FCP 
> level 2 proposal, MetadataHints would allow application writers to easily 
> handle redirected requests without having to parse metadata.
Cool. We do still need FCP layer 2, supporting (non-)redundant
splitfiles, indexes etc, of course. But that should be done
out-of-process or as a servlet.
> 
> I checked in an initial implementation.  Look here for a little more info:  
> 
> http://hawk.freenetproject.org/pipermail/cvs/2002-July/000351.html
> 
> What do people think?
> 
> -- gj
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