On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 06:21:50PM -0500, Brandon wrote:
> That would mean two requests to get any files with metadata (most of
> them). Is it worth it?

If we're talking about keys found in other Freenet documents (ie 
hypertext) rather than through websites, graffiti, skywriting etc., then 
this overhead could be avoided in most cases if there was a way of adding 
simple metadata to links. I don't know if there's a way to do it in HTML, 
but I'm thinking of something like this:

<img src="freenet:CHK at abcdefg" freenet_metadata="content-type:image/png 
foo:bar" alt="A picture">

This would avoid the need to retrieve metadata for anything except the 
first file accessed. It gives the linker the freedom to add whatever 
metadata they like, without creating duplicate copies of the data. But I 
don't know if you can do it in HTML.

Michael

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