On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 02:51:36PM -0800, thirty at hushmail.com wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 08 Nov 2002 16:21:14 -0800 Matthew Toseland <toad at 
> amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 
> --- snip ---
> 
> >Hmmm. I'm inclined to think that we should insert the metadata properly
> >and have gatewayhint purely for fetching the CHK...
> >> 
> 
> The metadata (redirects) are actually inserted properly.  Thing is,
> you can't just have the gatewayhint for fetching the CHK, there's
> a chicken and egg problem.  CHK is a hash of the content, no?  You
> need the content to generate the CHK, which is exactly what you 
> don't have when you're initially creating a request with a gateway
> hint.
When you are creating it with a gateway hint, you fetch the content and
insert it into freenet. You know the CHK. Gateway hints would be just in
case the data falls out of freenet.
> 
> At any rate, the code as it stands works and thus is a good 
> starting point.  I'm not attached to the implementation, it's the 
> functionality I want.  By all means, if you've got CVS access, 
> integrate it and experiment with it.  If you can make it function better, 
> do!!! 
> 

-- 
Matthew Toseland
toad at amphibian.dyndns.org
amphibian at users.sourceforge.net
Freenet/Coldstore open source hacker.
Employed full time by Freenet Project Inc. from 11/9/02 to 11/11/02.
http://freenetproject.org/
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