On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 12:42:07PM -0500, Ed Onken wrote: > I agree and would like to ask to clarify one thing that Greg proposed and > add another idea and propose a workaround for the whole issue of human > readable dates: > > Is the new HTL in idea #2 incremented from the previous HTL? Only for > DNF's? I assume most people have 15 for their default fproxy HTL. > > This may be a big deal, but maybe not too big since FProxy already rewrites > the HREF's of links anyway... Could however this human readable date stuff > ends up working also apply it to each link on a page that came from a > DBR'ed FreenetURI? So if I go back to let's say, the 2002-08-29 edition of > TFE, that if I click on the link for CofE, then it will take me to the > edition of CofE that goes with the same time as the edition of TFE that I > was reading? > > A hackish/kludgish idea for human-readable "DBR's" would be just to have > the freesite inserter and/or his tools insert a SSK that has a human > readable date in it like maybe SSK@blah/2002-08-29-TFE or some such. It We already have working human readable DBRs. For example, http://127.0.0.1:8888/SSK@rBjVda8pC-Kq04jUurIAb8IzAGcPAgM/TFE//?date=20020822 > ain't elagant, and it ain't a DBR, but it would work and work now without > any changes to anything except the freesite insertion tools. Heck, an > ambitious freesite inserter could write up his own metadata to do this and > insert it with any Freenet insert client and not even wait for a tool > change. The benefit of doing this is that it wouldn't work just in Fproxy > but in every client. If only people could agree on a format for doing > this. Doing that would my request above impossible, but that's OK. Ewwwwwww.
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