Hi Alex, > 1. Is anyone aware of any other P2P meta data services? I'm guessing if > there are I should think about a more generic interface.
When I used eMule under Windows it had built in a support to query two different sites if a file is bad or not. Unfortunately I don't remember the URLs. Also afaik Ed2k uses some md5 hash and gnutella uses sha1 hashes, so the services are probably incompatible. > 2. When would it make sense to query the database? When a search results > come in? As a result of user action (download,explict query)? For all > files we track (dmesh etc..)? Querying the database should only happen on a specific request from the user. Otherwise the effect on the databases will be as if somebody was running a massive DDoS attack on them. > 3. If I did the back-end code for this would any of the GUI people be > interested in implenting the GUI side? > Any other comments or issues? What do you have in mind on the gui side? Adding an additional entry to a popup menu is little magic. How do you think the results should be represented? Two questions which spring immediately to my mind when thinking about this are: - Should this whole metadata database business go hand in hand with interpretation of XML metadata in the query results themselves? - Maybe both information can be stored in a generic dictionary-kind of data-structure which can accessed by SHA1 key from the downloads/uploads/search results panes? So much for my two pennys. -- Richard Eckart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ Gtk-gnutella-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-gnutella-devel
