On Monday 17 February 2003 03:49 pm, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:36:34AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > hello list...
> >
> > i wonder why the insertion of a file with key CHK@ (automatically
> > generate the chk value) results different CHK-keys when inserted with fcp
> > and with fproxy
> >
> > these two different metadata headers of course produce different CHK@s
> > due do different metadata, but the data itself is the same
>
> You have answered your own question. The client we provide, java
> freenet.client.cli.Main (which uses FCP), will (hopefully) produce
> identical keys to what fproxy produces.
> > perhaps a checkbox in the web-frontend "create fcp compatible keys" or
> > "don't add additional metadata" would suffice for user interaction.
>
> Um, no. FCP clients (*COUGH* FROST *COUGH*) should provide the
> appropriate metadata. I have no idea what the point is of
> Info.Description=file is though.

There are lots of legitimate reasons for CHK's to be inserted without 
metadata; in fact it's usually the better case. I wouldn't mind seeing fproxy 
be able to do this without hassle.


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