On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:53:06PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > As FROST[-WOT]'s protocol is proprietary the author > >> > of this document has designed the FRUIT protocol. > >> > >> Whoa. WTF? > >> > >> Frost's protocol is proprietary? > > > >Frost is open source, but the code isn't very pleasant to look at. However, it > >looks like FRUIT will be better featured in any case. > > as filesharing is becoming more important within freenet but freenet is not exactly > targetted at filesharing it would make sense to define a way to request a file which > is currently not present within the freenet so it > becomes uploaded by the content provider.
This is futile. Any well known forum will instantly have requests for everything in the presence of an attacker. > > frost already does this, but as frost's requesting scheme seems to be for use > between different instances of frost only that's a substancial drawback. > > FRUIT is a protocol specification with two mail goals: be application independent > and be able to indicate this upload requestion in a standardized way while providing > informations enabling the client to decide if it > wants the file or not (try to prevent uploads when the data will get thrown away > later) > > ---~~--- > > after saying again what you already know, > > would you think there is something missing or plain wrong with the current FRUIT > spec? i'd like to push FRUIT into a stable state. > i'd also like to hear if you think if FRUIT is easy to implement for client > application coders as i hope it will eventually get implemented in some user > programs, or if there could be adjusted something > > ...attached is a slightly revised and up-to-date spec (alpha2) with some typos > fixed, MD5 fields, more notes, etc... > > thank you vey much! and have a nice sunday... > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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