On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:06:24AM +1000, fish wrote: > this is a patch which almost does the containers stuff flamewared above. > specifically, it does /key//file.jar///index.html like stuff. > > It doesn't do two important things yet, and hence shouldn't be commited yet - > it's presented here as an exercise in asking what the concensus was on these two > things: > > a) caching - seeking through the jar for 100+ files is going to be teh pains. > it's of course fast on my test sites, but they're all small. > > b) metadata - how should this be specified in this scenario? should there be > file.metadata files in the jar? should it be in the manifest of the upstream > key (i consider this a bad way of doing thigns, btw, but it would be faster)? > is it enough just to have freenet work it out from the extension in this case? > (no, it's actually not). Is there another way that I havn't through of? > (yes :-p)
Just do it with the metadata. The zip manifest file will have metadata, the metadata will have a new kind of redirect inside it. And where is the metadata spec again? :) > > Attempting to actualyl use this will result in bad things, most likely. Like > the old release notes said, this isn't supposed to work, and if it does, then > ergo it isn't doing what it's supposed to, and hence isn't working :) Oh, and don't implement it at the fproxy level! Implement it at the freenet.client level. > > it worked for me, but that means nothing :). > > -- fish -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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