On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 05:11:32PM -0500, Scott Gregory Miller wrote: > > I disagree, this means that a redirect would be required just to insert > > a small image into Freenet if we wanted to associated a MIME-type with > > it. That would (on average) double the time required to retrieve the > > image. Ditto for HTML pages, and anything else too small to split, but > > which uses a MIME-type. > > Solution: Allow only content-type and "Metadata-Key" fields, have the > redirect for the full metadata be attached to the data, not vice versa.
Making an exception for content-type makes me uncomfortable, you can be sure that there will be other fields which we have not thought of yet, but which are equally deserving of this treatment. I still don't really understand the rationale for separating out the metadata as you are suggesting anyway... Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010506/a6bc958d/attachment.pgp>
